筛 (shāi): (bound form) a sieve, to sieve, to sift, to filter, to eliminate through selection
筛 (shāi) is a Chinese character meaning “(bound form) a sieve.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺮ (semantic) and 师 (phonetic). It ranks #2900 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 筛 bamboo. Its radical form 竹 (bamboo) appears in many related characters such as 笑 (xiào, to laugh), 第 (dì, (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth")), 等 (děng, to wait for).
Definitions
- (bound form) a sieve
- to sieve
- to sift
- to filter
- to eliminate through selection
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 筛
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 筛子noun | shāi zi | sieve |
| 筛骨noun | shāi gǔ | ethmoid bone (cheek) |
| 分子筛noun | fēn zǐ shāi | molecular sieve |
| 筛糠 | shāi kāng | to sift chaff |
| 快速筛检 | kuài sù shāi jiǎn | rapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. to 快篩|快筛 |
| 过筛verb | guò shāi | to put through a sieve |
| 筛法 | shāi fǎ | the sieve method (for primes) |
| 筛管noun | shāi guǎn | (botany) sieve tube |
| 快筛 | kuài shāi | rapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. for 快速篩檢|快速筛检 |
| 格筛 | gé shāi | grizzly (mining) |
| 筛除 | shāi chú | to screen or filter out |
| 筛查verb | shāi chá | to screen (for disease etc) |
| 筛检verb | shāi jiǎn | to screen (for disease etc) |
筛 appears in 14 compound words: 64 as the first character, 29 as the last, and 7 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 筛 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
筛字虽然难写，但意思很有趣。
shāi zì suī rán nán xiě , dàn yì sī hěn yǒu qù .
The character "筛" may be difficult to write, but its meaning is quite interesting.
...检查项目有哪些?PSA检测只用于前列腺癌筛查吗
. . . jiǎn chá xiàng mù yǒu nǎ xiē ? P S A jiǎn cè zhī yòng yú qián liè xiàn ái shāi chá ma
... What are the inspection items? Is PSA testing only used for prostate cancer screening?
...边喂奶一边做dna的准确率无创产前高吗?筛查不能替代诊断吗
. . . biān wéi nǎi yī biān zuò d n a de zhǔn què lǜ wú chuàng chǎn qián gāo ma ? shāi chá bù néng tì dài zhěn duàn ma
... Is the accuracy of DNA while breastfeeding non-invasive high prenatal rate? Is screening not a substitute for diagnosis?
性行为年龄下降 连假后性病筛检人数跟着涨
xìng háng wéi nián líng xià jiàng lián jiǎ hòu xìng bìng shāi jiǎn rén shǔ gēn zhe zhǎng
The age of sexual activity has declined, and the number of sexually transmitted disease screenings has increased after the holidays
孕期喝了酒对宝宝有没有影响?唐筛或无创能检测出酒精伤害吗
yùn qī hē le jiǔ duì bǎo bǎo yǒu méi yǒu yǐng xiǎng ? táng shāi huò wú chuàng néng jiǎn cè chū jiǔ jīng shāng hài ma
Does drinking alcohol during pregnancy affect the baby? Can Tang sieve or non-invasive detect alcohol damage?
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the ⺮ (bamboo) component
Homophones — Characters pronounced shāi
Frequently Asked Questions
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