to separate

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

wall/mound (阝) + sound gé (鬲) = to separate or partition

The mound radical 阝 evokes a wall or earthen barrier that divides space. 鬲 mainly contributes the sound gé; the wall does the semantic work of separation.

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A moundSemantic
A type of ancient cooking vesselPhonetic

我们两家着一条街。

wǒ men liǎng jiā gé zhe yī tiáo jiē。

Our two families are separated by one street.

三天才来一次。

tā gé sān tiān cái lái yī cì。

He comes only once every three days.

Words with 隔

远隔千里

yuǎn gé qiān lǐ

thousands of miles away

间隔

jiàn gé

gap

间隔摄影

jiàn gé shè yǐng

time-lapse photography

间隔号

jiàn gé hào

middle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a transliterated foreign name or elements in a list

间隔重复

jiàn gé chóng fù

spaced repetition

阻隔

zǔ gé

to separate

隔三岔五

gé sān chà wǔ

variant of 隔三差五[ge2 san1 cha4 wu3]

隔三差五

gé sān chà wǔ

(idiom) every few days; every once in a while

隔世

gé shì

separated by a generation

隔壁

gé bì

next door

隔壁有耳

gé bì yǒu ěr

walls have ears

隔壁老王

gé bì lǎo wáng

Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)

More characters with 阝