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沉chén默mò寡guǎ言yán

  1. habitually silent (idiom); reticent; uncommunicative

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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4
沉
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

variant of 沉[chen2]

Pinyin
chén
Traditional
沈
Strokes
7
Frequency
7969 of 2500
Words starting with 沉Words ending in 沉Anywhere in a word
默
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

silent, to write from memory

Pinyin
mò
Strokes
16
Frequency
13378 of 2500
Words starting with 默Words ending in 默Anywhere in a word
寡
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

few, scant, widowed

Pinyin
guǎ
Strokes
14
Words starting with 寡Words ending in 寡Anywhere in a word
言
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

words, speech, to say, to talk

Pinyin
yán
Strokes
7
Frequency
6821 of 2500
Words starting with 言Words ending in 言Anywhere in a word