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沉默

chén mò
HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 4

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Definitions

  1. 1. taciturn
  2. 2. uncommunicative
  3. 3. silent

Example Sentences

3 shown
沉默 是金。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 762937)
雄辯如銀， 沉默 如金。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 806224)
雄辯是銀， 沉默 是金。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 897279)

Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.

Words Containing 沉默

沉默寡言
chén mò guǎ yán

habitually silent (idiom)

Child Words of 沉默

沉
chén

to submerge

默
mò

silent