Illustration: Two residents stand on directly adjoining balconies of a modest Japanese apartment building, one on either side of the shared dividing panel. Each is hanging laundry, and matching socks from their separate loads have ended up clipped near opposite edges of the same partition.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

隣となり合あう

tonariau

to adjoin, to be next to each other

Example sentences

うちと彼かれの家いえは隣となり合あっている。
Our house adjoins his.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
隣となり合あう鳥居同士とりいどうしが柱はしらを共有きょうゆうする為ため、柱はしらは6本ぽんではなく3本ぼんとなる。
Because adjacent torii gates share pillars, there are three pillars rather than six.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
私わたしたちは電車でんしゃで隣となり合あって座すわった。
We sat next to each other on the train.
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Kanji in 隣合

隣neighboringOnリンKunとなる・となり
合fit; suitOnゴウ・ガッ・カッKunあう・あい・あい-

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