U+7B5B "筛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
筛
U+7B5B "筛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "sieve" or "to sift," and it is used in both traditional and simplified forms. Its composition includes the bamboo radical on top, reflecting the material traditionally used to make sieves, and a phonetic component on the bottom that suggests its pronunciation, shāi in Mandarin. This character is commonly found in contexts related to filtering, sorting, or separating finer particles from coarser ones, such as in cooking, agriculture, or metaphorical processes like screening information. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for consistent representation across digital systems that support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B5B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 筛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 筛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAD 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b5b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27503C |
| kCangjie | HLLB |
| kCantonese | sai1 |
| kDefinition | sieve, filter, screen; sift |
| kEACC | 27503C |
| kFourCornerCode | 8822 |
| kGB0 | 4124 |
| kHanYu | 52965.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shāi(12) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52965.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0884.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4938 |
| kTGH | 2013:2684 |
| kKangXi | 0884.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4652 |
| kMandarin | shāi |
| kRSUnicode | 118.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 500.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 323.090:shāi |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "篩" U+7BE9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0994.100:shāi |