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See also:
U+7BE9, 篩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BE9

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 118, +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹口月 (HHRB), four-corner 88727, composition 𥫗)

  1. sieve, filter, screen
  2. sift

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 895, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26359
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1322, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3001, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7BE9

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𥭘 Min

Glyph origin

Pronunciation


Note:
  • sai - literary;
  • thai - vernacular (俗).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂai⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂai⁴⁴/
/sai⁴⁴/
Tianjin /sai²¹/
Jinan /ʂɛ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʂɛ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʂai²⁴/
Xi'an /sai²¹/ ~麥
/sai⁵³/ ~子
Xining /sɛ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ʂɛ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʂɛ³¹/
Ürümqi /sai⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sai⁵⁵/
Chengdu /sai⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sai⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂæ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂae³¹/
Hefei /ʂe̞²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /sai¹¹/
Pingyao /sæ¹³/ 篩子
/sæ⁵³/ 搖晃
Hohhot /sɛ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /sa⁵³/
/sz̩⁵³/
Suzhou /sɑ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /se̞³³/
Wenzhou /sz̩³³/
Hui Shexian /sa³¹/
Tunxi /sa¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /sai³³/
Xiangtan /sai³³/
Gan Nanchang /sai⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /si⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐi⁵³/
Nanning /sɐi⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sɐi⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sai⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tʰai⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sai⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰai³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hai²³/ 訓莃

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter srij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃiɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂji/
Li
Rong
/ʃji/
Wang
Li
/ʃi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʂi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
si1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 11431 11432 11436
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sreːl/ /*srel/ /*sri/
Notes

Definitions

  1. sieve; strainer; sifter
  2. to sift; to strain
  3. (dated) to pour (a drink)
  4. (dated) to warm up (an alcoholic beverage)
  5. (colloquial) to strike (a gong)
  6. (literary) to rain

Synonyms

  • (to rain):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: (shi) (se)
  • Kan-on: さい (sai) (shi)
  • Kun: ふるう (furuu, 篩う)ふるい (furui, )

Etymology

Kanji in this term
ふるい
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
ふるい
: a sieve
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(sa) (hangeul , revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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