咝
sī

hiss

咝 (噝) sī
hiss onomatopoeia
onomatopoeic sound of escaping gas, steam, or the sound made by a snake

只听咝的一声，气球开始漏气了。

zhǐ tīng sī de yī shēng, qì​qiú kāi​shǐ lòu​qì le.

With a hiss, the balloon started to leak air.

whiz punctuation
onomatopoeic sound of something moving rapidly through the air, such as a bullet or the wind

一颗子弹咝的一声从我头顶飞过。

yī kē zǐ​dàn sī de yī shēng cóng wǒ tóu​dǐng fēi​guò.

A bullet whizzed past my head with a hiss.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,367th most common 1.98 per million
Movie subtitles
3,752nd most common 0.960 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.34 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.39 per million

Details
Traditional
噝
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+549D

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