The house was dead silent.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
死寂
deathly stillness
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
deathly stillness
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 死寂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 死寂 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Jessie stared at Jordan in dead silence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 死寂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 死寂.
Directly before
- 杰西死寂1
- 一片死寂1
Directly after
- 死寂般1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 死寂
What does 死寂 mean in Chinese?
死寂 (sǐjì) means deathly stillness.
How do you pronounce 死寂?
死寂 is pronounced sǐjì.
Is 死寂 an HSK word?
死寂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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