shh

See also: SHH

English

Etymology

Variant of hush.

Alternative forms

• sh
• shhh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃː/

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Interjection

shh

1. Requesting silence. Asking people to keep silent.

Synonyms

• hush!, shush!

Translations

requesting silence

• Armenian: սո՛ւս (hy) ‎(sús)
• Catalan: moixoni
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噓 (zh), 嘘 (zh) ‎(xū, shī)

• Czech: pst (cs), pšt (cs), ticho (cs)
• Dutch: sst
• Esperanto: ŝŝ
• Finnish: (ole) vaiti/hiljaa!
• French: chut (fr)
• Georgian: ჩუ ‎(ču), ჩუმად ‎(čumad)
• German: still (de), pst (de), pscht
• Hebrew: שֶׁקֶט (he) ‎(shéket)
• Hungarian: pszt, pssz (hu), csitt (hu)
• Irish: fuist

• Italian: zitto (it), silenzio (it), taci
• Japanese: しーっ ‎(shīt), 叱 (ja) ‎(しっ, shi)
• Korean: 쉿 ‎(swit)
• Latin: st, tacē(te) (la)
• Persian: هیس (fa) ‎(hiss)
• Polish: sza, ciii (pl)
• Portuguese: psiu (pt)
• Russian: тс-с-с ‎(ts-s-s), ш-ш-ш (ru) ‎(š-š-š), ти́ше (ru) ‎(tíše), ша (ru) ‎(ša)
• Slovak: pst
• Spanish: chito (es)
• Swahili: usu
• Swedish: shh
• Turkish: şşş
• Vietnamese: suỵt

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