Chinese symbol for “compartment”
隔间
gé jiān
Traditional: 隔間
compartment; booth; cubicle; partitioned-off area
The closest CC-CEDICT match for compartment is 隔间 (gé jiān), defined as: compartment; booth; cubicle; partitioned-off area.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “compartment”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 包房 | bāo fáng | compartment (of train, ship etc); private room at restaurant |
| 格 | gé | square; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit) |
| 间隔 (間隔) | jiàn gé | gap; interval |
| 区隔 (區隔) | qū gé | to mark off; interval |
| 包间 (包間) | bāo jiān | private room (in a restaurant, or for karaoke etc); parlor |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 隔间.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隔离 (隔離) | gé lí | to separate; to isolate |
| 隔壁 | gé bì | next door; neighbor |
| 间隔 (間隔) | jiàn gé | gap; interval |
| 时隔 (時隔) | shí gé | separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time) |
| 隔绝 (隔絕) | gé jué | to cut off; to isolate; isolated (from the world) |
| 分隔 | fēn gé | to divide; to separate |
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 之间 (之間) | zhī jiān | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间 ( |
See also: Japanese symbol for “compartment”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.