沈ちん黙もく
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. silence; being silent; quiet; hush
There was another long silence.
2. reticence; inaction
Kanji used
sink
shut up
Pitch accent
ち
んもく
Top 1900
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
to break the silence; to break one's silence
Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)
Examples (57 in total)
The people fell silent.
There was another silence.
The other party was silent for a while.