Illustration: In a quiet Japanese recreation room, two table-tennis players face each other across a single table, one at each end. A teenager leans forward to return a ball while an older opponent waits with their paddle raised and an unexpectedly competitive grin.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

一いち対たい一いち

ichitaiichi

one-to-one, one-on-one

Example sentences

その合併がっぺいは１対たい１で行おこなわれた。
The merger was implemented on a 50-50 ratio.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
スコアは１対たい１だ。
The score is one all.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
剣道けんどうの試合しあいは常つねに1対たい1で戦たたかう。
A Kendo match always involved one-to-one fighting.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 一対一

一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
対vis-a-vis; oppositeOnタイ・ツイKunあいて・こたえる・そろい

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