けい

See also: げい and Appendix:Variations of "kei"

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of けい – see the following entries.
【兄】2
[noun] (rare) an elder brother
[pronoun] pronoun referencing an older brother figure: you, he
[suffix] attaches to a name referencing an older brother figure: Mister, Mr.
【刑】S
[noun] punishment
[suffix] punishment; sentence; penalty
【圭】J
[proper noun] a unisex given name
【形】2
[suffix] (linguistic morphology) an inflected form; an inflection
[noun] clipping of 形容詞 (keiyōshi, “(i-)adjective”)
【恵】S
[proper noun] a unisex given name
【啓】S
[proper noun] a male given name
[noun] disclose, open, say
【京】2
[number] 10,000,000,000,000,000, 1016, (US) ten quadrillion, (UK) ten thousand billion
【珪】H
[affix] (historical) jade tablet conferred upon princes as a symbol of authority
[affix] silicon
【系】6
[suffix] type, kind, system, family
【計】2
[noun] plan
[noun] total
[suffix] -meter (measuring device)
[prefix] a total of..., in total
【蛍】S
[affix] used in various compounds to refer to fluorescence
[proper noun] a female given name
【慧】J
[proper noun] a male given name
Alternative spellings
さとし, とし
【軽】3
[prefix] light
[noun] abbreviation of 軽自動車 (keijidōsha, “kei car, light automobile”)
【景】4
[noun] vista, view, scene
[noun] counter for scenes (in a play)
【桂】J
[noun] Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia
[noun] common name for various other trees in family Lauraceae
[noun] (in compounds) 木犀 (mokusei, “sweet osmanthus tree”)
[noun] (euphemistic) the moon
[noun] (shogi) the knight in 将棋 (shōgi, “Japanese chess”)
【経】5
[noun] a warp (thread running lengthwise in a woven fabric)
[noun] correct logic or reasoning
[noun] a scripture (in Buddhism, Confucianism, or other religions)
[proper noun] a surname
[proper noun] a unisex given name
【敬】6
[affix] respect, honor, reverence
【怪異】
[adjective] strange
[noun] strangeness; strange thing
【圣】H
[symbol] (Kumamoto, in parking spaces) abbreviation of 軽, referring to 軽自動車 (kei-jidōsha, “light vehicle”).
【罫】H
[noun] rule (line on paper to guide writing)
[noun] (go) line (making up the grid on the board)
[noun] This term needs a translation to English.
(This term, けい (kei), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as けい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as けい.

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 卿, 径, 奎, 磬, 頃, 褻居, 契.)

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