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筛

shāi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character Traditional 篩

What 筛 means

1. bound forma sieve
2. to sieve; to sift; to filter
3. to eliminate through selection
4. to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water)
5. to pour (wine or tea)
6. dialectto strike (a gong)

Example sentences

• 快筛虽然方便，但仍有伪阳性或伪阴性的可能，不能完全取代 PCR 检测。
  Rapid tests are convenient, but there is still a possibility of false positives or false negatives, and they cannot fully replace PCR testing.

Words starting with 筛

• 筛选shāi xuǎnto filter
• 筛子shāi zisieve
• 筛查shāi cháto screen (for disease etc)
• 筛检shāi jiǎnto screen (for disease etc)
• 筛法shāi fǎthe sieve method (for primes)
• 筛管shāi guǎn(botany) sieve tube
• 筛除shāi chúto screen or filter out; to winnow (agriculture)
• 筛骨shāi gǔethmoid bone (cheek)
• 筛糠shāi kāngto sift chaff; (fig.) to shake all over

Words containing 筛

• 快筛kuài shāirapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. for 快速筛检
• 格筛gé shāigrizzly (mining)
• 过筛guò shāito put through a sieve; to sift (flour etc); to strain (a liquid); (fig.) to screen…
• 分子筛fēn zǐ shāimolecular sieve
• 快速筛检kuài sù shāi jiǎnrapid diagnostic test (RDT), abbr. to 快筛

Characters that look like 筛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 掉diàoto fall; to drop; to lag behind
• 锋fēngpoint of a spear; edge of a tool; vanguard
• 萍píngduckweed
• 摒bìngto discard; to get rid of
• 蒋Jiǎngsurname Jiang; Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石
• 滓zǐ(bound form) dregs; sediment

Sounds the same

Read shāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 籭old variant of 筛

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shāi correctly.
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