噻
sāi

character used in translation

噻 sāi
[transliteration]
(bound form) character used in transliterating names of chemical compounds, such as 噻吩 sāi​fēn and 噻唑 sāi​zuò
to keep silent
(literary) to keep one's mouth shut; to be silent
wow
(onomatopoeic) exclamation of surprise or wonder, similar to 哎呀 āi​yā

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,857th most common 0.382 per million
Movie subtitles
3,622nd most common 1.20 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.67 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.87 per million

Details
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+567B

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