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moyai

moyai is the rare spelling of moai.

Meaning of moai

Noun

moai (plural moai or moais)

  1. One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
    • As the years passed, the Moais and Ahus became larger and larger, many with red scoria top crowns weighing as much as ten tons.2012, John Loret, John T. Tanacredi, Easter Island, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26

Interjection

  1. (Internet) Used to indicate humor, embarrassment, confusion, or surprise at something.
    Synonyms:
    🗿

Noun

moyai (plural moyai or moyais)

  1. A form of stone statue built in Niijima, Japan.

Synonyms of moyai

  • 🗿

Forms of moyai

pluralmoyai
pluralmoyais

Origin of moyai

See moai. The interjection is derived from the Unicode systematic name for the emoji, Moyai.

Borrowed from Japanese モヤイ (moyai)

Questions about moyai

What does moyai mean?
Moyai means used to indicate humor, embarrassment, confusion, or surprise at something.
What is moyai the rare spelling of?
Moyai is the rare spelling of moai.
What part of speech is moyai?
Moyai can be an interjection or a noun.

Words near moyai in the dictionary

  1. Moxons
  2. Moxos
  3. moxy
  4. Moy
  5. moya
  6. moyai
  7. moyais
  8. moyamoya
  9. Moyamoya disease
  10. Moyamoya syndrome
  11. Moyano

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moyai (page history and authors); moai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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