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yōkai

yōkai is the alternative form of yokai.

Meaning of yokai

Noun

yokai (plural yokai or yokais)

  1. (Japanese) Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore.
    • Earl didn’t know all the details about what that type of yokais’ powers were, her mother kept the family secrets close to the vest, and he knew even less about which of those powers had gotten passed onto her half-human offspring.2021, Larry Correia, chapter 6, in Monster Hunter Bloodlines (Monster Hunters International; 9), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN

Forms of yōkai

pluralyōkai
pluralyōkais

Questions about yōkai

What is yōkai the alternative form of?
Yōkai is the alternative form of yokai.

Words near yōkai in the dictionary

  1. Yün-meng
  2. Yün-nan
  3. Yün-yang
  4. Yünnan
  5. Yıldırım
  6. yōkai
  7. yōkais
  8. yōkan
  9. yūkaku
  10. y̆
  11. yͤ

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yōkai (page history and authors); yokai (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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