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间隔

jiàn gé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 間隔

间隔 (jiàn gé) means "gap". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 间隔 means

1. gap
2. interval
3. compartment
4. to divide
5. to separate
6. to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)

The characters in 间隔

• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space
• 隔géto separate; to partition; to stand or lie between

Example sentences

• 他间隔了很久才作答。
  Tā jiàngé le hěn jiǔ cái zuòdá.
  There was a long interval before he replied.
• 他们之间隔着很远的距离。
  Tāmen zhījiān gé zhe hěn yuǎn de jùlí.
  They are separated by a great distance.
• 广东与广西之间隔着什么？
  Guǎngdōng yǔ Guǎngxī zhījiān gé zhe shénme?
  What separates Guangdong from Guangxi?
• 广东与广西之间隔着什幺？
  What separates Guangdong from Guangxi?
• 这间教室与那间隔着一堵墙。
  Zhè jiān jiàoshì yǔ nà jiàngé zhe yī dǔ qiáng.
  This classroom is separated from that one by a wall.
• 在火车的间隔中有漫长的等待。
  Zài huǒchē de jiàngé zhōng yǒu màncháng de děngdài.
  There is a long wait between trains.

Words starting with 间隔

• 间隔号jiàn gé hàomiddle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a…
• 间隔摄影jiàn gé shè yǐngtime-lapse photography
• 间隔重复jiàn gé chóng fùspaced repetition

Sounds the same

Read jiàn gé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 贱格despicable
• 剑阁see 剑阁县

Where 间隔 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiǎn–jiān (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiàn gé correctly.
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