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ちんもく
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. silence; being silent; quiet; hush
There was another long silence.
2. reticence; inaction
Alt. forms
沈ちん黙もく
99%
ちんもく
Pitch accent
ち
んもく
Conjugations...Used in: 2
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
taciturn; reticent
speech is silver, silence is golden
silent trade; dumb barter; depot trade
silent killer
Examples (57 in total)
The people fell silent.
There was another silence.
The other party was silent for a while.
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