shh

See also SHH

English

Alternative forms

• sh
• shhh

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃː/

• Audio (UK)

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Interjection

shh

1. Requesting silence. Asking people to keep silent.

Synonyms

• hush!, shush!

Translations

requesting silence

• Armenian: սու՛ս (hy) (sus!)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噓 (cmn), 嘘 (cmn) (xū, shī)

• Czech: pst (cs), pšt (cs), ticho!
• Dutch: sst!
• Esperanto: ŝŝ (eo)
• Finnish: (ole) vaiti/hiljaa!
• French: chut (fr)
• German: still (de), pst (de), pscht (de)
• Hebrew: שקט (he)
• Irish: fuist!

• Italian: zitto!; silenzio!; taci!
• Japanese: しーっ (ja) (shīt)
• Korean: 쉿 (ko) (swit)
• Persian: هیس (fa) (hiss)
• Polish: sza (pl), cicho (pl)
• Portuguese: psiu!
• Russian: тс-с-с (ru) (ts-s-s), ш-ш-ш (ru) (š-š-š), тише (ru) (tíše), ша (ru) (ša)
• Slovak: pst (sk)
• Spanish: ¡chito!
• Turkish: şşş (tr)

Anagrams

• HHS