Chinese Character 篩 Meanings and components.

Form

篩

Meaning

篩 meaning[3] in English

To Filter.

To Sift.

To Sieve.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 篩 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are bamboo (竹) , and surname Shi (師)

Its radical[1] is: 竹 (zhu2) which means: Bamboo, Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1], Kangxi Radical 118, .竹zhu2bamboo

In cangjie it is written with HHRB

How to write 篩

To write篩shai1to filter you should write a combination of 竹zhu2bamboo , 師shi1surname Shi arranged in a 吕 shape:

竹 + 師 = 篩

篩 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 篩 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 篩, looks as follow:

篩
Pinyin:shai1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Filter . To Sift . To Sieve
竹
Pinyin:zhu2
Meaning[3]: Bamboo . Cl:棵[Ke1],支[Zhi1],根[Gen1] . Kangxi Radical 118
亇
Pinyin:ma5 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 個|个[Ge4]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
*
Pinyin:*
亅
Pinyin:jue2
Meaning[3]: 'Vertical Stroke With Hook' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 6) . See Also 豎鉤|竖钩[Shu4 Gou1]
師
Pinyin:shi1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Shi
𠂤
Pinyin:dui1 Shape:吕
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
㠯
Pinyin:yi3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 以[Yi3]
帀
Pinyin:za1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 匝[Za1]
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
巾
Pinyin:jin1
Meaning[3]: Towel . General Purpose Cloth . Women'S Headcovering (Old) . Kangxi Radical 50
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
丨
Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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