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沉默

chénmò

taciturn

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Meaning of 沉默 in English

chénmòHSK 5verbSyllabus #2131
  1. taciturn
  2. uncommunicative
  3. silent

Example sentences

  1. 雄辯如銀，沉默如金。
    xióng biàn rú yín， chén mò rú jīn。
    Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
    Tatoeba #806224 by Martha · #2328 by Zifre · CC BY 2.0 FR
  2. 沉默就意味着同意。
    chén mò jiù yì wèi zhe tóng yì。
    Silence gives consent.
    Tatoeba #414244 by fucongcong · #1778 by AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR
  3. 我们保持了沉默。
    wǒ men bǎo chí le chén mò。
    We kept quiet.
    Tatoeba #334263 by fucongcong · #248957 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

Sentence pinyin is generated automatically and may contain errors.

Characters

沉 on its own →
chén · to submerge

HSK words with 沉

沉HSK 5沉重HSK 6沉淀HSK 7–9沉浸HSK 7–9沉闷HSK 7–9沉迷HSK 7–9沉睡HSK 7–9沉思HSK 7–9沉稳HSK 7–9沉着HSK 7–9
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HSK words with 默

幽默HSK 4默默HSK 6默契HSK 7–9默默无闻HSK 7–9潜移默化HSK 7–9

Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences