かね

See also: がね

Japanese

Etymology 1

(ka, interrogative particle) + (ne, empathic sentence-ending particle)[1][2][3]

Unrelated to Ido ka ne.

Particle

かね • (ka ne

  1. (emphatic, sentence-ending particle) marks a statement as a question
    (なに)をしましたかね?!Nani o shimashita ka ne?!What did you do?!

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of かね – see the following entries.
1
[noun] metal
[noun] (impolite) clipping of お金 (okane): money
[noun] (colloquial) short for 曲尺 (kanejaku): a carpenter’s square
[noun] (colloquial) short for 金物 (kanamono) or 金具 (kanagu): metal fittings
[noun] short for 金性 (kaneshō): fineness of gold metal, compare English karat
[noun] synonym of 金箔 (kinpaku): gold leaf
Alternative spellings
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[noun] bell
(This term, かね (kane), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as かね, see Category:Japanese kanji read as かね.

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References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN