HSK 5 · Places

隔壁 gébì “next door” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 隔壁 means

  1. next door
  2. neighbour

How to say 隔壁

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale隔gé2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale壁bì4th tone, falling

隔壁 in a sentence

  1. 那是住在隔壁的男人。

    Nà shì zhù zài gébì de nánrén.

    That’s the man who lives next door.

    Sentence #896512 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 隔壁桌的对话吸引了我的注意。

    Gébì zhuō de duìhuà xīyǐn le wǒ de zhùyì.

    My attention was grabbed by a conversation at the neighbouring table.

    Sentence #13959009 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 隔壁的男孩常常晚回家。

    Gébì de nánhái chángcháng wǎn huíjiā.

    The boy next door often comes home late.

    Sentence #3516407 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 隔壁 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 隔 (gé) with each of its parts in a different colour
隔géto separate
  • 阝placeMeaning part
  • 鬲cauldron · géSound part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 鬲 (gé) hints at the sound. Compare it with gé.

The character 壁 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
壁bìwall
  • 辟law · bìSound part
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 辟 (bì) hints at the sound. Compare it with bì.

How to write 隔壁

隔 12 strokes · 壁 16 strokes

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隔壁 (gébì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 隔壁 (gébì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 隔壁

Words with 隔

间隔jiàngé · interval隔离gélí · to isolate隔阂géhé · estrangement

Words with 壁

悬崖峭壁xuányáqiàobì · sheer cliff

More words: Places & Geography

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FAQs

隔壁 (gébì) means “next door” or “neighbour”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it gébì: gé with a 2nd tone, then bì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 隔壁 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gebi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 隔壁 from the suggestions. Typing gebi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
隔壁 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.