隔音
gé yīn
Pinyin

Definition

隔音
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gé yīn
  1. soundproofing

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

时隔
shí gé
  1. 1 separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
声音
shēng yīn
  1. 1 voice
  2. 2 sound
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
观音
Guān yīn
  1. 1 Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
语音
yǔ yīn
  1. 1 speech sounds
  2. 2 pronunciation
  3. 3 colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
  4. 4 phonetic
  5. 5 audio
  6. 6 voice
  7. 7 (Internet) to voice chat
  8. 8 voice message
隔
gé
  1. 1 to separate
  2. 2 to partition
  3. 3 to stand or lie between
  4. 4 at a distance from
  5. 5 after or at an interval of
隔壁
gé bì
  1. 1 next door
  2. 2 neighbor
音
yīn
  1. 1 sound
  2. 2 noise
  3. 3 note (of musical scale)
  4. 4 tone
  5. 5 news
  6. 6 syllable
  7. 7 reading (phonetic value of a character)
音乐
yīn yuè
  1. 1 music
  2. 2 CL:張|张[zhāng],曲[qǔ],段[duàn]
五音不全
wǔ yīn bù quán
  1. 1 tone deaf
  2. 2 unable to sing in tune
低音
dī yīn
  1. 1 bass
分隔
fēn gé
  1. 1 to divide
  2. 2 to separate
  3. 3 partition
口音
kǒu yīn
  1. 1 oral speech sounds (linguistics)
嗓音
sǎng yīn
  1. 1 voice
噪音
zào yīn
  1. 1 rumble
  2. 2 noise
  3. 3 static (in a signal)
回音
huí yīn
  1. 1 echo
  2. 2 reply
  3. 3 turn (ornament in music)
定音
dìng yīn
  1. 1 to call the tune
  2. 2 to make the final decision
影音
yǐng yīn
  1. 1 recorded media (CD and DVD)
  2. 2 sound and movies
拼音
pīn yīn
  1. 1 phonetic writing
  2. 2 pinyin (Chinese romanization)
播音
bō yīn
  1. 1 to transmit
  2. 2 to broadcast
收音机
shōu yīn jī
  1. 1 radio
  2. 2 CL:臺|台[tái]

Idioms (13)

一日不见，如隔三秋
yī rì bù jiàn , rú gé sān qiū
  1. 1 one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
人心隔肚皮
rén xīn gé dù pí
  1. 1 there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom)
天地悬隔
tiān dì xuán gé
  1. 1 lit. a gulf between heaven and earth
  2. 2 wide difference of opinion (idiom)
空谷足音
kōng gǔ zú yīn
  1. 1 the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom)
  2. 2 sth hard to come by
  3. 3 sth wonderful and rare
听话听声，锣鼓听音
tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn
  1. 1 to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
与世隔绝
yǔ shì gé jué
  1. 1 to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
隔三差五
gé sān chà wǔ
  1. 1 every few days (idiom)
隔岸观火
gé àn guān huǒ
  1. 1 to watch the fires burning across the river
  2. 2 to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
隔年皇历
gé nián huáng lì
  1. 1 lit. almanac from years back (idiom)
  2. 2 obsolete practice
  3. 3 old-fashioned principle
隔墙有耳
gé qiáng yǒu ěr
  1. 1 the walls have ears (idiom)
隔行如隔山
gé háng rú gé shān
  1. 1 different trades, worlds apart (idiom); to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book
隔靴搔痒
gé xuē sāo yǎng
  1. 1 lit. to scratch the outside of the boot (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. beside the point
  3. 3 ineffectual
余音绕梁
yú yīn rào liáng
  1. 1 reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)

Sample Sentences

呵呵，不过你们可别太折腾啊，咱们这群租房，一套房子隔成五六个小房间，隔音效果太差了！
hēhē ，bùguò nǐmen kě bié tài zhēteng a ，zánmen zhè qúnzū fáng ，yī tào fángzi gé chéng wǔ liù gè xiǎo fángjiān ，géyīn xiàoguǒ tài chà le ！
Heh-heh. But keep the noise down all right? We all live here as a group. One apartment is divided into 5 or 6 little rooms. The sound insulation is terrible!
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