HSK 6 · Verbs

隔离 gélí “to isolate” in Chinese

Traditional 隔離

What 隔离 means

  1. to isolate
  2. to separate
  3. quarantine

How to say 隔离

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale离lí2nd tone, rising

隔离 in a sentence

  1. 这片区域已隔离。

    Zhè piàn qūyù yǐ gélí.

    This area has been quarantined.

    Sentence #13528949 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 隔离 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 离 (lí) with each of its parts in a different colour
离líto leave
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 凶culprit · xiōng
  • 禸track · róu

How to write 隔离

隔 12 strokes · 离 10 strokes

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

Words related to 隔离

Words with 隔

隔壁gébì · next door间隔jiàngé · interval隔阂géhé · estrangement

Words with 离

离lí · away from离开líkāi · leave距离jùlí · distance离婚líhūn · to divorce脱离tuōlí · to break away from

More words: Common Verbs

干涉gānshè · to interfere干预gānyù · to intervene搁gē · to put割gē · to cut更正gēngzhèng · to correct跟随gēnsuí · to follow跟踪gēnzōng · to track巩固gǒnggù · to consolidate

FAQs

隔离 (gélí) means “to isolate” or “to separate”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gélí: gé with a 2nd tone, then lí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 隔离 is written 隔離. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type geli with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 隔离 from the suggestions. Typing geli into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
隔离 is an HSK 6 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.