ปิด เสียง
“ปิด เสียง” (пит сианг) — to mute; to turn off the sound in Thai. Phrase, level A1. The pair of "switch on": the switch-off word you know from the light, and siang, "sound", you heard in "volume". The sound switches off, not the device. In a live sentence: “ปิด เสียง ก่อน ดู หนัง” — Mute it before the film. Written with the characters ป, ิ, ด, เ, ส, ี, ย, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ปิด เสียง |
| Read in Latin letters | пит сианг |
| Translation | to mute; to turn off the sound |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The pair of "switch on": the switch-off word you know from the light, and siang, "sound", you heard in "volume". The sound switches off, not the device
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ปิด เสียง ก่อน ดู หนังпит сианг кон дуу нангMute it before the film
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to mute; to turn off the sound” in Thai?
«ปิด เสียง», read “пит сианг”. In a live sentence: “ปิด เสียง ก่อน ดู หนัง” — Mute it before the film. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ป, ิ, ด, เ, ส, ี, ย, ง.
How is “ปิด เสียง” written in Latin letters?
пит сианг. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The pair of "switch on": the switch-off word you know from the light, and siang, "sound", you heard in "volume". The sound switches off, not the device. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.