Meanings
- isolate
- alternate
- distance
- separate
- gulf
Strokes13
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1382 of 2,500
Kanji N1
隔: isolate, alternate, distance
隔 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning isolate, alternate, distance, written with 13 strokes. It is read カク (on) and へだてる, へだたる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 間隔 (かんかく, space) and 隔週 (かくしゅう, every other week).
隔
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- カク
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- へだてる
- へだたる
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Common words with 隔
The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.
- JLPT N2
- JLPT N1
- 隔てるへだてるJLPT N2
to separate (by distance, time, etc.)
- 隔たるへだたるJLPT N1
to be distant
- 隔たりへだたり
distance; difference; gap; disparity; gulf
- 隔てへだて
partition; division; barrier; separation
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