格格不入

gégé-bùrù

idiom HSK 7-9 #17,020

Meanings

1 incompatible
2 out of place
3 unable to fit in

Characters

to block; to clash

Examples

HSK 1

她在新学校里觉得格格不入。

Tā zài xīn xuéxiào lǐ juéde gégé-bùrù.

She felt out of place at her new school.

HSK 2

他的想法和大家格格不入。

Tā de xiǎngfǎ hé dàjiā gégé-bùrù.

His ideas are incompatible with everyone else's.

Tips

memory

格格 mimics the sound of things clashing/blocking, and 不入 means 'cannot enter' - things that keep bumping against each other and can't fit together.

Stroke Order

格 gé

不 bù

入 rù