隔

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to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

阝 meaning “wall” + 鬲 sound ( gé )

Components 阝鬲

separate · Heisig RSH #2352

pinnacle + cauldron

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一日不见，如隔三秋	yī rì bù jiàn , rú gé sān qiū	one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
一线之隔	yī xiàn zhī gé	a fine line; a fine distinction
光隔离器	guāng gé lí qì	opto-isolator (electronics)
间隔重复	jiàn gé chóng fù	spaced repetition
远隔千里	yuǎn gé qiān lǐ	thousands of miles away; far away
隔行如隔山	gé háng rú gé shān	different trades, worlds apart (idiom); to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book
隔三差五	gé sān chà wǔ	(idiom) every few days; every once in a while
间隔号	jiàn gé hào	middle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a transli…
人心隔肚皮	rén xīn gé dù pí	there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom)
种族隔离	zhǒng zú gé lí	racial segregation; apartheid
区隔	qū gé	to mark off; interval; segment (e.g. of market); compartment; segmentation
隔山	gé shān	(old) (of a half-sibling) having the same mother but different father
隔水	gé shuǐ	(old) (of a half-sibling) having the same father but different mother
中隔	zhōng gé	septum (anatomy)
隔天	gé tiān	the next day; on alternate days
隔行	gé háng	to interlace; to interleave (computing)
分隔	fēn gé	to divide; to separate; partition
隔壁老王	gé bì Lǎo Wáng	Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleep…
隔开	gé kāi	to separate
隔断板	gé duàn bǎn	partition board

Characters sharing the sound component 鬲 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
鬲 sound part	gé	earthen pot, iron cauldron
膈	gé	diaphragm
嗝	gé	the cackling of a fowl; to gag, to vomit
翮	hé	quill, feather stem
塥	gé	a lump of clay
镉	gé	cadmium