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隔阂

gé hé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 隔閡

隔阂 (gé hé) means "misunderstanding; estrangement; (language etc) barrier". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 隔阂 means

1. misunderstanding
2. estrangement
3. (language etc) barrier

The characters in 隔阂

• 隔géto separate; to partition; to stand or lie between
• 阂héobstruct

Example sentences

• 欢笑是人之本能，有了欢笑， 就没了文化隔阂。
  Huānxiào shì rén zhī běnnéng, yǒule huānxiào, jiù méile wénhuà géhé.
  Laughter is a human instinct, and when it comes to instinct, cultural barriers don't exist.

Where 隔阂 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gé–jǐ (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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