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  *隔* | 隔* | *隔
to separate / to partition / to stand or lie between / at a distance from / after or at an interval of
HSK 4
to separate
HSK 4
next door / neighbor
HSK 5
to separate / to isolate
HSK 7-9
gap / interval / compartment / to divide / to separate / to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)
HSK 7-9
misunderstanding / estrangement / (language etc) barrier
HSK 7-9
separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
HSK 7-9
the next day / on alternate days
opto-isolator (electronics)
soundproofing
to interlace / to interleave (computing)
to insulate thermally / insulating (material, effect etc)
variant of 暌隔
to separate / to cut off
compartment / booth / cubicle / partitioned-off area
overnight / of the previous day
to cut off; to isolate / isolated (from the world)
to divide / to separate / partition
partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
to watch the fires burning across the river / to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom)
different trades, worlds apart (idiom); to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book
racial segregation / apartheid
nasal septum
mediastinum (organs and tissues in the thorax between the lungs)
see 隔天
middle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a transliterated foreign name or elements in a list
diaphragm (anatomy)
(idiom) every few days; every once in a while
separated by a generation / a lifetime ago
half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step-
diaphragm (anatomy) / distant (socially aloof) / divided by lack of mutual comprehension / nonexpert
lit. to scratch the outside of the boot (idiom) / fig. beside the point / ineffectual
like a thing of the previous generation; as if it were a lifetime ago
partition / partition board
to mark off / interval / segment (e.g. of market) / compartment / segmentation
lit. almanac from years back (idiom) / obsolete practice / old-fashioned principle
divider; partition
septum (anatomy)
at intervals of / every (so often)
(literary) separated; parted
grease trap
pre-makeup cream / makeup base / foundation primer
nucleus accumbens (anatomy)
from a distance; through the air; remotely (esp. by means of telekinesis, magic, technology etc)
one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. wide difference of opinion
Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
insulation
variant of 隔三差五
a fine line / a fine distinction
carbon sequestration / carbon dioxide sequestration
rigorous isolation
tabula (horizontal floor of polyp)
separated by (distance or time etc)
carbon sequestration
thousands of miles away / far away
time-lapse photography
spaced repetition
walls have ears
next-door neighbor
partition board
the walls have ears (idiom)
to converse with sb by shouting from some distance away / (fig.) to say sth intended for the ears of sb who is not in one's presence (often, by making a public statement or by posting online)
interlaced scanning
(loanword) ghetto
apostrophe, as used in pinyin orthography (i.e. to mark a boundary between two syllables, as in "dàng'àn" 檔案|档案)


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