篩
shāi HSK7

sieve

筛 (篩) shāi
pour verb
to warm or pour wine or tea

小二，快筛一壶热酒来！

xiǎo'èr, kuài shāi yī hú rè jiǔ lái!

Waiter, fetch me a pot of warm wine!

screen verb
to eliminate through selection or filter for quality

选拔赛会筛掉一部分表现欠佳的选手。

xuǎn​bá​sài huì shāi diào yī bù​fen biǎo​xiàn qiàn​jiā de xuǎn​shǒu.

The trials will screen out some underperforming contestants.

sieve verb
to pass through a sieve or filter; a sifting tool

他正在用细箩筛面粉。

tā zhèng​zài yòng xì luó shāi miàn​fěn.

He is sifting flour with a fine sieve.

strike verb
to strike or beat a gong

戏台下筛起锣鼓，表演开始了。

xì​tái xià shāi qǐ luó​gǔ, biǎo​yǎn kāi​shǐ le.

The gongs and drums sounded below the stage, and the performance began.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,388th most common 6.03 per million
Movie subtitles
3,074th most common 3.07 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.980 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
6.97 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
筛
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+7BE9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)