First opened Tuesday, July 12, 2005
各々
おのおの
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
each, every, either
Onoono is a reduplication of 己 (ono, “self”).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 各
In a sentence
おのおのの建物には名前がある。
Each building has a name.
各々の乗客には荷物二つの制限がある。
There is a limit of two pieces of luggage for each passenger.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Reduplication of 己(おの) (ono, “self”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 各々 (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
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.