Kanji1 / 15
黙 kanji
silence, become silent, stop speaking, leave as is
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
モクボク
Kun readings
だまるもだす
Variant forms
默Words with 黙
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —緘黙keeping silent
- —黙思silent contemplation
- —黙約tacit agreement; default
- —黙過tacit approval
- —黙視view without saying a word; tacit permission
- —黙想meditation; silent contemplation
- —黙諾tacit consent
- —黙然silently; in silence
- —黙字silent letter
- —黙食eating in quiet; eating without talking
- —黙浴bathing communally without talking (to reduce transmission of disease)
- —完黙remaining silent (of a suspect in a criminal investigation)
- —黙活doing in silence; doing without speaking
- —黙示録Revelation (book of the Bible); the Apocalypse
- —黙秘権right to keep silent; right to silence; right to remain silent
- —黙示的implied; implicit
- —暗黙知tacit knowledge
- —暗黙的implicit
- —黙するto stop talking; to be silent
- —緘黙症mutism