Illustration: Before the first visitors arrive, a small temple's enclosed courtyard rests completely still. The shallow basin reflects the eaves without a ripple, bamboo leaves hang motionless, and an empty wooden veranda runs beside closed sliding doors.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

静せい寂じゃく

seijaku

quiet, still

Example sentences

  1. 総理大臣官邸そうりだいじんかんていの喧噪けんそうとはうってかわって静寂せいじゃくな荻外荘てきがいそうのたたずまいを、近衛このえは政治せいじの場ばとしても活用かつようした。

    Konoe also used the quiet presence of Tekigaiso, which was completely different from the bustle at the Prime Minister’s official residence, as his political stage.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 現在げんざいでは、静寂せいじゃくさを取とり戻もどしており、山裾やますその曲まがりくねった道みちではあるが、縄文じょうもんや弥生やよいの時代じだいから、人々ひとびとによく利用りようされてきた道みちであろう。

    Now the winding road at the foot of mountains is a silent place, but it has long been a popular road dating back to Jomon and Yayoi periods.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 遠とおくの雷鳴らいめいが、夜よるの静寂せいじゃくを破やぶった。

    Distant thunder broke the silence of the night.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 静寂

  • 静quietOnセイ・ジョウKunしず-・しずか・しずまる
  • 寂loneliness; quietlyOnジャク・セキKunさび・さびしい・さびれる

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