隔

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隔 U+9694, 隔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9694
← 隓
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 隕 →

Translingual

Han character

隔 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中一口月 (NLMRB), four-corner 71227, composition ⿰阝鬲)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41783
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4149, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+9694

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 隔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鬲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
隔 *kreːɡ
膈 *kreːɡ
搹 *kreːɡ
鬲 *kreːɡ, *ɡ·reːɡ
槅 *kreːɡ
嗝 *kreːɡ
虉 *ŋɡreːɡ, *ŋɡeːɡ
翮 *ɡreːɡ
滆 *ɡreːɡ
蒚 *ɡreːɡ, *ɡ·reːɡ
鎘 *ɡ·reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreːɡ) : semantic 阝 (“wall”) + phonetic 鬲 (OC *kreːɡ, *ɡ·reːɡ) – to separate with a wall.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • keh/keeh - vernacular (“to separate; to be separated by; to be separated by a certain amount of time; to sever; partition inside a container”);
  • kiak/kek - literary.
Rime
Character 隔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古核切
Baxter keak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong 		/kɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/kæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ge
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gak1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 隔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gé
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kɛk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁrek/
English obstruct, separate (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 隔
Reading # 1/1
No. 3840
Phonetic
component 		鬲
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		隔
Old
Chinese 		/*kreːɡ/

Definitions

隔

  1. to separate; to partition
  2. to block; to obstruct
  3. (Hakka) to pull something apart (with one's hand)
  4. (Hokkien) to be separated by; to be apart; to be away from (a place)
    𪜶厝佮阮厝隔足遠的。 [Hokkien, trad.]
    𪜶厝佮阮厝隔足远的。 [Hokkien, simp.]
    In chhù kah goán chhù keh chiok hn̄g ê. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    His/her house are far apart from my house.
  5. (Hokkien) to separated by a certain amount of time; to leave a gap of (a time period)
  6. (Hokkien) to sever; to split; to separate
    將這間房隔做兩間。 [Hokkien, trad.]
    将这间房隔做两间。 [Hokkien, simp.]
    Chiang che keng pâng keh chò lióng keng. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    to split the room into two
  7. (Mainland China Hokkien) partition inside a container

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (隔):
  • → Vietnamese: cách (隔)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 隔 – see 擊 (“to strike; to beat”).
(This character is an obsolete form of 擊).

Japanese

Kanji

隔

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. divide
  2. separation
  3. segregate
  4. alternate
  5. void between

Readings

Korean

Hanja

隔 (eumhun 막을 격 (mageul gyeok))

  1. hanja form? of 경 (“block, enclose”)
  2. hanja form? of 경 (“separate, partition”)

Vietnamese

Han character

隔: Hán Nôm readings: cách

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