喧嘩両成敗
Meanings
Expression
1. in a quarrel, both parties are to blame
Other spellings
けんか両成敗
Kanji used
Pitch accent
けんかりょうせいばい
Composed of
両
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; traditional unit of weight (for gold, silver and drugs), 4-5 monme, 15-19 g; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold; traditional measure of fabric, 2 tan
Prefix