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
隔离
gélí
to isolate; to separate; to quarantine
Characters in this word
离 lí
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 禸 — rump
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 疫情初期，临时隔离措施虽然粗糙，却为医院争取了宝贵时间。 Yìqíng chūqī, línshí gélí cuòshī suīrán cūcāo, què wèi yīyuàn zhēngqǔ le bǎoguì shíjiān. In the early stage of the epidemic, the temporary isolation measures were crude, but they bought valuable time for the hospitals.
- 病人需要隔离七天，不能和家人见面。 Bìngrén xūyào gélí qī tiān, bù néng hé jiārén jiànmiàn. The patient needs to be isolated for seven days and cannot see their family.
- 这堵墙把厨房和客厅隔离开来。 Zhè dǔ qiáng bǎ chúfáng hé kètīng gélí kāilái. This wall separates the kitchen from the living room.
Related words
- 隔 gé to be separated by
- 隔开 gékāi to separate
- 隔壁 gébì next door
- 间隔 jiàngé interval, gap; to separate
- 隔阂 géhé estrangement; barrier; gap
- 时隔 shígé after an interval of
- 离 lí from (distance)
- 离开 líkāi to leave
- 离婚 líhūn to divorce
- 距离 jùlí distance
- 离不开 líbùkāi cannot do without
- 分离 fēnlí to separate; to part