筛查

篩查
shāichá
verb HSK 7-9

Meanings

  1. 1 to screen (for disease, defects, risk)
  2. 2 to check systematically

Examples

HSK 7-9
Yīyuàn wèi sìshí suì yǐshàng de yuángōng miǎnfèi shāichá le sān zhǒng chángjiàn áizhèng.
The hospital screened staff over forty for three common cancers free of charge.
HSK 7-9
Zǎoqī shāichá néng dàfú tígāo zhìyùlǜ.
Screening early raises the cure rate substantially.
HSK 7-9
Xìtǒng huì zìdòng shāichá chū kěyí jiāoyì, zài jiāogěi réngōng fùhé.
The system screens out suspicious transactions automatically and passes them to a human for review.

Tips

usage
What you do to a whole population to find the few cases hiding in it, every employee over forty, every transaction of the day. Examining one person who is already a patient is 检查.
memory
is a bamboo sieve, so the word is literally sift-and-check: tip the whole batch through and look at what stays in the mesh. The same character gives 筛选, to filter a list down.

Stroke Order

shāi
chá