HSK 6 · Verbs

筛选 shāixuǎn “to screen” in Chinese

Traditional 篩選

What 筛选 means

  1. to screen
  2. to select
  3. to filter

How to say 筛选

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale筛shāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale选xuǎn3rd tone, dipping

筛选 in a sentence

  1. 公司从一百多个人里筛选出了五个人。

    Gōngsī cóng yìbǎi duō ge rén lǐ shāixuǎn chū le wǔ ge rén.

    The company picked five people out of more than a hundred.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 你可以按价格筛选商品。

    Nǐ kěyǐ àn jiàgé shāixuǎn shāngpǐn.

    You can filter the products by price.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 筛选 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 筛 (shāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
筛shāia sieve
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 师teacher · shīSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 师 (shī) hints at the sound. Compare it with shāi.

The character 选 (xuǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
选xuǎnto choose
  • 先first · xiānSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 先 (xiān) hints at the sound. Compare it with xuǎn.

How to write 筛选

筛 12 strokes · 选 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

筛选 (shāixuǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 筛选 (shāixuǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 筛选

Words with 选

选xuǎn · to choose选择xuǎnzé · select选手xuǎnshǒu · competitor选拔xuǎnbá · to select (the best)当选dāngxuǎn · to be elected候选hòuxuǎn · candidate竞选jìngxuǎn · to run for office选举xuǎnjǔ · to elect

More words: Common Verbs

揉róu · to rub散布sànbù · to spread散发sànfā · to give off丧失sàngshī · to lose闪烁shǎnshuò · to twinkle捎shāo · to bring along设立shèlì · to set up渗透shèntòu · to permeate

FAQs

筛选 (shāixuǎn) means “to screen” or “to select”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shāixuǎn: shāi with a 1st tone, then xuǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 筛选 is written 篩選. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shaixuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 筛选 from the suggestions. Typing shaixuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
筛选 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.