沉默 (chénmò) means Silence. Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
听完这句话，他 沉默 了。
Tīng wán zhè jù huà, tā chénmò le.
After hearing this, he fell silent.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 沉默
他用 沉默 表示抗议。
Tā yòng chénmò biǎoshì kàngyì.
He expressed his protest by staying silent.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 抗议
他 沉默 了片刻才开口。
Tā chénmò le piànkè cái kāikǒu.
He was silent for a moment before speaking.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 片刻
沉默 并不意味着同意。
Chénmò bìng bú yìwèizhe tóngyì.
Silence does not mean agreement.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 意味着
大家用 沉默 表达追悼之情。
Dàjiā yòng chénmò biǎodá zhuīdào zhī qíng.
Everyone expressed their mourning in silence.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 追悼
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Questions about 沉默
How is 沉默 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 沉默 (chénmò, "Silence"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 沉默 an HSK word?
Yes — 沉默 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 沉默?
The dictionary page for 沉默 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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