隔
Meaning
- to separate
- to partition
- to stand or lie between
Example sentence
隔墙有耳。
The walls have ears.
The character 隔
隔 is 阝, a wall, beside 鬲: partitioning. 隔开 to separate two things, 隔壁 next door — and 隔 in front of a stretch of time means after it: 隔一天, a day later.