筛
(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)
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Dict coverage rank #2,789 U+7B5B
How 筛 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 师 (phonetic, shī)
How to remember it
sift · Heisig RSH #2052
竹 bamboo + 师 teacher
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 师
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 师 (shī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 师 sound component | shī | teacher, professional, master |
| 狮 | shī | lion |
| 浉 | shī | a river in Henan province |
| 蛳 | sī | a snail with a spiral shell |
Words containing 筛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分子筛 | fēn zǐ shāi | molecular sieve |
| 快速筛检 | kuài sù shāi jiǎn | rapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. to 快篩|快筛[kuai4 shai1] |
| 筛子 | shāi zi | sieve; CL:面[mian4] |
| 筛法 | shāi fǎ | the sieve method (for primes) |
| 筛管 | shāi guǎn | (botany) sieve tube |
| 格筛 | gé shāi | grizzly (mining) |
| 过筛 | guò shāi | to put through a sieve; to sift (flour etc); to strain (a liquid); (fig.) to screen; to fi… |
| 筛骨 | shāi gǔ | ethmoid bone (cheek) |
| 筛查 | shāi chá | to screen (for disease etc) |
| 快筛 | kuài shāi | rapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. for 快速篩檢|快速筛检[kuai4 su4 shai1 jian3] |
| 筛选 | shāi xuǎn | to filter |
| 筛除 | shāi chú | to screen or filter out; to winnow (agriculture) |
| 筛检 | shāi jiǎn | to screen (for disease etc) |
| 筛糠 | shāi kāng | to sift chaff; (fig.) to shake all over |