U+7BE9 "篩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
篩
U+7BE9 "篩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "sieve" or "to sift," functioning as both a noun and a verb in East Asian languages including Chinese and Japanese. This character is composed of a bamboo radical, indicating its historical association with bamboo-made sieves, and a phonetic component. In modern usage, it appears in contexts ranging from literal kitchen utensils to figurative expressions about filtering or sorting through information. The character is also used in traditional Chinese medicine and calligraphy, reflecting its deep roots in Chinese culture and everyday life.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7BE9 |
| 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 | 篩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 篩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAF 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7BE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007BE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7be9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BF7A |
| kCCCII | 21503C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7164 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7164 |
| kCangjie | HHRB |
| kCantonese | sai1 |
| kCihaiT | 1020.102 |
| kCowles | 3813 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1322.090 |
| kDefinition | sieve, filter, screen; sift |
| kEACC | 21503C |
| kFanqie | 所宜 疏夷 山佳 |
| kFenn | 753E |
| kFennIndex | 433.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8872.7 |
| kGB1 | 4124 |
| kHangul | 사:0N |
| kHanYu | 53001.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shāi(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53001.130:shī,shāi |
| kHKGlyph | 3008 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1322.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53001.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0895.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4938 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BF7A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6441 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0ED |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E68 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7164 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-622E |
| kJapanese | シ サイ ふるい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | FURUI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI SAI |
| kJis0 | 6833 |
| kKangXi | 0895.070 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 2630 2631 |
| kMandarin | shāi |
| kMatthews | 5621 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2612 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019625 |
| kMorohashi | 26359 |
| kNelson | 3433 |
| kPhonetic | 1171 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6002+118.6.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.10 |
| kSBGY | 052.03 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7C1B<kMatthews U+7C01<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "筛" U+7B5B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 505.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shāi粵sai1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4652 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | rây |
| kXerox | 263:101 |
| kXHC1983 | 0994.101:shāi |