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隔壁

gé bì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

隔壁 (gé bì) means "next door". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 隔壁 means

1. next door
2. neighbor

The characters in 隔壁

• 隔géto separate; to partition; to stand or lie between
• 壁bìwall; rampart

Example sentences

• 她住在他的隔壁。
  Tā zhù zài tā de gébì.
  She lives next door to him.
• 他住在我们隔壁。
  He lives next door to us.
• 我们曾是隔壁邻居。
  We used to be neighbours.
• 那是住在隔壁的男人。
  Nàshi zhù zài gébì de nánrén.
  That's the man who lives next door.
• 隔壁家的狗很是危险。
  The dog next door is dangerous.
• 隔壁的男孩常常晚回家。
  The boy who lives next door often comes home late.

Words starting with 隔壁

• 隔壁有耳gé bì yǒu ěrwalls have ears
• 隔壁老王gé bì Lǎo WángMr Wang from next door…
• 隔壁邻居gé bì lín jūnext-door neighbor

Where 隔壁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms B (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gé bì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.