U+7B5B "筛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

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.