各自|かくじkakuji[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. noun, adverbeach (person); everyone; individual; respective
   そのチームの選手せんしゅは各自かくじめいめいのバットを持もっている。↗

   Each player on the team has his own bat.

• SynonymそれぞれNeutralCovers both people and things and is the most common choice in speech; 「各自」 is limited to people and sounds a bit more formal.
• SynonymめいめいNeutralRefers to each individual person, as in 「銘々の考え」 or 「銘々皿」; largely interchangeable with 「各自」 but less common today.
• Synonym個々ここNeutralMeans one by one or individual, for people or things alike, as in 「個々の問題」; 「各自」 stresses each person acting for themselves.
• Related各個かっこWrittenWritten/formal prose meaning one by one; mostly in fixed phrases like 「各個撃破」. 「各自」 refers to each person.
• Antonym全体ぜんたいNeutralThe opposite of taking each person separately: the whole formed by all members or things together.
• Antonym一同いちどうFormalFormal word for everyone present or involved, as in 「社員一同」; contrasts with 「各自」 by stressing everyone together.

Use 「各自」 for each person doing something themselves, as in 「各自で持参」. In casual speech say 「それぞれ」; for individual items use 「個々」. For the group as a whole, use 「全体」 or, formally, 「一同」.

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1. それぞれの人ひと。副詞ふくし的てきにも用もちいられる。