隔てる
へだてる · hedateru · JLPT N2 · verb-ichidan
to be shut out
🧱 隔て = partition or wall; 隔てる = to put a partition between, keeping something out
The stem 隔 means barrier or separation. The noun 隔て is a partition, and the verb turns it into keeping things apart or shut out.
隔 — 阜 (mound 阝) + 鬲 (cauldron, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left element 阝 (mound/hill) suggests a barrier or separation, while 鬲 (an ancient three-legged cauldron) supplies the sound. The original sense of being blocked off by terrain extended to today's meanings of 'separate,' 'partition,' or 'at an interval.'