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お互い
おたがい
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mutual, reciprocal, each other
Otagai is 御 (o-, honorific prefix) plus 互い (tagai, “mutual relationship”).
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Written with 互
In a sentence
お互い仇同士だ。
They are bitter enemies.
お互い相性がいい。
The chemistry is right for us.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 御(お) (o-, honorific prefix) + 互(たが)い (tagai, “mutual relationship”).”
Source: Wiktionary: お互い (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.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.