ちんもく
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
Verb (する)
1. silence; being silent; quiet; hush
2. reticence; inaction
Pitch accent
んもく
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
taciturn; reticent
to break the silence; to break one's silence
speech is silver, silence is golden
Examples (21 in total)
There was another silence.
There was a short silence.
There was a silence.
Silence gives consent.
What does his silence imply?
There followed a long silence.
It was his silence that made her angry.
There followed a prolonged silence.
It is silence that is valuable now.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
There was an awkward silence when he appeared.
I interpreted his silence as consent.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
I felt his silence insulting me.
My speech was greeted with cold silence.
I interpreted your silence as consent.
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
Everyone was silent as the teacher was announcing the results of the examination.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Silence is golden, but not when trying to learn a foreign language.