隔 gé
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 鬲 earthen pot, iron cauldron
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
隔开
gékāi
to separate
Characters in this word
开 kāi
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 廾 — two hands
- Made of
- 一 one 廾 two hands
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 请隔开坐。 Qǐng gékāi zuò. Please sit apart.
- 桌子隔开了。 Zhuōzi gékāi le. The tables are separated.
- 用墙隔开。 Yòng qiáng gékāi. Separate them with a wall.
Related words
- 隔 gé to be separated by
- 隔壁 gébì next door
- 打开 dǎkāi to open, to turn on
- 开 kāi to open; to drive; to turn on
- 开车 kāichē to drive a car
- 开会 kāihuì to have a meeting
- 开玩笑 kāiwánxiào to joke
- 分开 fēnkāi to separate; to part
- 开机 kāijī to turn on a device
- 开心 kāixīn happy
- 开学 kāixué to start school
- 离开 líkāi to leave