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隔山

gé shān

2-character word

What 隔山 means

1. old(of a half-sibling) having the same mother but different father

The characters in 隔山

• 隔géto separate; to partition; to stand or lie between
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

Sounds the same

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

• 格栅grille

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