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もしかしたら
もしかしたら
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perhaps, maybe, by some chance
Moshikashitara is もしか (moshi ka, “perhaps, if”) plus したら (shitara, “if doing”).
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What Wiktionary says
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Not settled
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- Hedged“From もしか (moshi ka, “perhaps, if”) + したら (shitara, “if doing”).”
Source: Wiktionary: もしかしたら (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.