チンモク
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. silence; being silent; quiet; hush
There was another long silence.
2. reticence; inaction
Pitch accent
チ
ンモク
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)
speech is silver, silence is golden
taciturn; reticent
Examples (57 in total)
The people fell silent.
There was another silence.
The other party was silent for a while.