互い

たがい · tagai · JLPT N3 · noun

mutual

🤝 tagai sounds like tag, I: you tag me, I tag you, so it goes both ways

The kanji 互 is two hook shapes locked together, each one holding the other. That makes it mean mutual. You'll often see it as お互いに, which means with each other or mutually.

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