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隔三岔五

gé sān chà wǔ

4-character word

What 隔三岔五 means

1. variant of {隔三差五|gé sān chà wǔ}

The characters in 隔三岔五

• 隔géto separate; to partition; to stand or lie between
• 三sānthree; 3
• 岔chàfork in road; bifurcation; branch in road, river, mountain range etc
• 五wǔfive; 5

Sounds the same

Read gé sān chà wǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 隔三差五(idiom) every few days; every once in a while

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