Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1382 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: isolate, alternate, distance, separate, gulf

Kunyomi: へだ.てる へだ.たる

Onyomi: カク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: mound, dam (阝 left)

Examples

Onyomi Examples

カク every other, second, alternate

カクゲツ every second month, every other month

エンカク distant, remote, isolated

ジュウカク mediastinum

Kunyomi Examples

てる へだてる to separate (by distance, time, etc.), to isolate, to partition, to divide, to interpose, to have between, to alienate, to estrange

たる へだたる to be distant