筛
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(bound form) a sieve; to sieve; to sift; to filter; to eliminate through selection; to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water); to pour (wine or tea); (dialect) to strike (a gong)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 竹 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 篩
- Common rank
- #2,789
- Unicode
- U+7B5B
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
sift · Heisig RSH #2052
竹 bamboo + 师 teacher
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 筛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分子筛 | molecular sieve | |
| 快速筛检 | rapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. to 快篩|快筛[kuai4 shai1] | |
| 筛子 | sieve; CL:面[mian4] | |
| 筛法 | the sieve method (for primes) | |
| 筛管 | (botany) sieve tube | |
| 格筛 | grizzly (mining) | |
| 过筛 | to put through a sieve; to sift (flour etc); to strain (a liquid); (fig.) to screen; to fi… | |
| 筛骨 | ethmoid bone (cheek) | |
| 筛查 | to screen (for disease etc) | |
| 快筛 | rapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. for 快速篩檢|快速筛检[kuai4 su4 shai1 jian3] | |
| 筛选 | to filter | |
| 筛除 | to screen or filter out; to winnow (agriculture) | |
| 筛检 | to screen (for disease etc) | |
| 筛糠 | to sift chaff; (fig.) to shake all over |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 师 — compare how they read.