格 gé
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
格格不入
gégébúrù
to be incompatible; to be out of place
Characters in this word
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
入 rù
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 入 — to enter, to come in
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他穿着过于正式，在那场随意的聚会上显得格格不入。 Tā chuān zhe guòyú zhèngshì, zài nà chǎng suíyì de jùhuì shang xiǎnde gégébúrù. He was dressed too formally and looked out of place at that casual gathering.
- 他的想法和大家的习惯格格不入。 Tā de xiǎngfǎ hé dàjiā de xíguàn gégébúrù. His ideas are completely at odds with what everyone else is used to.
- 新来的同学觉得自己和班里的气氛格格不入。 Xīn lái de tóngxué juéde zìjǐ hé bān lǐ de qìfēn gégébúrù. The new classmate felt out of step with the mood in the class.