Illustration: Two small homes face each other across a narrow residential lane in Japan. Their open front doorways line up exactly, and each resident stands squarely in their own entrance looking straight at the other.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

真ま向むかい

mamukai

directly opposite

Example sentences

私わたしの家いえは病院びょういんの真向まむかいです。
My house is just across from the hospital.
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客きゃくは私わたしの真向まむかいに座すわっていた。
The visitor sat across from me.
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彼かれの家いえはちょうど郵便局ゆうびんきょくの真向まむかいにある。
His house is just across from the post office.
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Kanji in 真向

真true; realityOnシンKunま・ま-・まこと
向face; tend towardOnコウKunむく・むい・むける

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