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sift

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

shai1 shāi

Meaning


Primary

sift

Alternatives

sifts, sifted, sifting, sieve

Mnemonic


[sh-] Shrek is in [1] front of the [-ai] high school where he is trying to 篩 sift through a bunch of 巾 towels that are there piled on the 一 ground. His best friend, a gnome, is lost somewhere in the pile. He uses a long piece of ⺮ bamboo to 篩 sift through, while the high school students stand to the side, laughing at their funny prank of piling the 巾 towels on top of the poor gnome.

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