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kei

kei noun: a class of lightweight vehicles with small engines.

Noun (1)

kei

  1. (Japan) A class of lightweight vehicles with small engines.
    • Nissan Motor Co. revamped one of its more popular lightweight kei cars as the Japanese carmaker refreshes its aging lineup. The fourth-generation Roox will go on sale by the end of the year for ¥1.6 million ($10,800), the company said Friday. The new model has better mileage, more safety features...2025 August 21, Emi Tanimoto, “Nissan Updates Popular Kei Car as It Revamps Aging Lineup”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025

Noun (2)

kei

  1. (Japan, aesthetic) A type of Japanese street fashion and music aesthetics.

Proper noun capitalized: Kei

Kei

  1. A unisex given name from Japanese.

Origin of kei

Borrowed from Japanese 軽 (kei, “lightweight”), from Japanese 軽自動車 (keijidōsha).

Borrowed from Japanese 系 (kei, “style”).

Words formed from kei

Phrases with kei

Questions about kei

What does kei mean?
Kei means a class of lightweight vehicles with small engines.
What part of speech is kei?
Kei can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kei in the dictionary

  1. kehua
  2. kehuas
  3. kehya
  4. kehyas
  5. Kehychivka
  6. kei
  7. Kei apple
  8. Kei apples
  9. kei car
  10. kei cars
  11. Keidel

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