隔
gé HSK4

separate

隔 gé
to separate verbpreposition
to partition; to divide or cut off so that two things cannot connect; to stand or lie between

建造这堵墙是为了把人隔在外面还是把他们留在里面？

jiàn​zào zhè dǔ qiáng shì wèi​le bǎ rén gé zài wài​miàn hái​shi bǎ tā​men liú zài lǐ​miàn?

Was this wall built to keep people out or to keep them in?

at an interval of preposition
to be separated by a certain amount of distance or time; after a period of time; at a distance of

隔两条街都能看到火焰。

gé liǎng tiáo jiē dōu néng kàn dào huǒ​yàn.

You could see the flames from two streets away.

to change
to change, vary, or diverge, especially of names or titles over time

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,319th most common 93.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,339th most common 55.7 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
18.5 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
34.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9694

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)