互

音読おんよみ:

訓読くんよみ: たが

画数かくすう: 4

部首ぶしゅ: 二(に)

Meaning

Mutual / Reciprocal / Each Other / Inter-.

  • 互角ごかく — evenly matched; equal
  • 相互そうご — mutual; reciprocal
  • 交互こうご — alternately; by turns
  • 互換性ごかんせい — compatibility; interchangeability
  • 互恵ごけい — mutual benefit; reciprocity
  • 互助ごじょ — mutual aid; helping each other
  • たがいに — each other; one another
  • たがちがい — alternation; zigzag arrangement

互 shows a design of lines intertwining like two parts crossing — originally tools entwined together. By extension, it came to mean mutual, reciprocal, or shared.

Think of — interaction and facing one another. Add the crossing form of , and you picture people meeting on equal ground, acting mutually and reciprocally.

Forms

互角ごかく — evenly matched; equal

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