ちんもく
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. silence; being silent; quiet; hush
There was another long silence.
2. reticence; inaction
Pitch accent
ち
んもく
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
to break the silence; to break one's silence
Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)
speech is silver, silence is golden
Examples (57 in total)
The people fell silent.
There was another silence.
The other party was silent for a while.