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Mythic Mandarin

隔壁 (gé bì): meaning and stroke order

隔壁 (gé bì) means next door, neighbor.

隔壁

Simplified
隔壁
Traditional
隔壁 (same form)
Pinyin
gé bì

Stroke order of 隔壁

隔

  • gé to separate; to partition
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

壁

  • bì wall; rampart
  • 16 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 隔壁

  1. gé bì
    • next door
    • neighbor

Radicals of the characters

隔
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 12 strokes · 阝 on the left, 鬲 on the right
壁
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 16 strokes · 辟 on top, 土 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

隔壁 in our stories

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  • 先开口的是贝女士。她去年买下了隔壁的房子，花了不少钱在院子里装了一间玻璃阳光房。

    xiān kāikǒu de shì Bèi nǚshì tā qùnián mǎi xià le gébì de fángzi huā le bù shǎo qián zài yuànzi lǐ zhuāng le yì jiān bōli yángguāngfáng

    Ms Bei spoke first. She had bought the house next door last year and spent a good deal on a glass sunroom in the garden.

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 隔壁

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).