嘘
shīxū

exhale

嘘 噓 shī frequency
[hush] interjection
Used to command silence or to hiss at poultry to drive them away

“嘘——别讲话，”护士说。

“ shī— bié jiǎng huà,” hù​shi shuō.

“Sh—don’t talk,” the nurse said.

嘘 噓 xū
(bound form) to praise verb
(bound form) To boast or praise
to boo noun
To hiss or boo to show disapproval or to drive something away.
to exhale slowly
To breathe out slowly from the mouth or to sigh
(bound form) to greet
(bound form) To inquire after someone's well-being
to scald
To heat or scald with steam

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,973rd most common 10.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,411th most common 49.8 per million appears in 20% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
64.4 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
3.58 per million

Details
Traditional
噓
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+5618

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)