间 隔

jiàngé

verbnounHSK 7-9

“Gap” in Chinese is 间隔 (jiàngé).

Meaning

gap
interval
compartment

Show 3 more meanings

to divide
to separate
to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)

Example

在火车的间隔中有漫长的等待。

There is a long wait between trains.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

jiānHSK 17 strokesbetween géHSK 412 strokesto separate

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