Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

隔: isolate, alternate

Also: distance, separate, gulf

JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻖ carries the meaning · 鬲 gives the sound

13 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 隔離かくりisolation; segregation; separation
  • 間隔かんかくspace; interval
  • 遠隔えんかくdistant; remote; isolated
  • 隔週かくしゅうevery other week; every two weeks
  • 隔月かくげつevery second month; every other month

へだてるhedateru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 隔てへだてpartition; division; barrier
  • 隔てるへだてるto separate (by distance, time, etc.)

へだたるhedataru · kun'yomi

  • 隔たりへだたりdistance; difference; gap

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gé

Same form: 隔 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
隔 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
隔 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin gé most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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