Word.ws English Dictionary

youkai

youkai 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 youkai

pluralyoukai
pluralyoukais

Questions about youkai

What is youkai the alternative form of?
Youkai is the alternative form of yokai.

Words near youkai in the dictionary

  1. Yougoslavians
  2. Yougoslavs
  3. youing
  4. youins
  5. youk
  6. youkai
  7. youkais
  8. youkan
  9. youked
  10. Youkhana
  11. Youkhanas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: youkai (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “youkai.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/youkai. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.