静か
しずか
hepburn shizuka
quiet, silent
Part of speech · na-adjective
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- この図書館はとても静かです。This library is very quiet.
- 静かにしてください。Please be quiet.
Collocations
静か (shizuka, quiet)静かにする (shizuka ni suru, be quiet)うるさい (urusai, noisy)騒がしい (sawagashii, noisy / boisterous)無音 (muon, soundless)
Mnemonic
Shizuka (静か) is a na-adjective — "quiet, calm, still." Shizuka na heya (a quiet room), shizuka ni aruku (walk quietly, adverbial). Antonyms: urusai (うるさい, noisy — i-adjective, conversational default), sawagashii (騒がしい, boisterous — more formal / written). In Japanese aesthetics, seijaku (静寂, deep silence) and kanjaku (閑寂, tranquil quiet) are core wabi-sabi vocabulary. "Oshizuka ni" (please be quiet, polite) appears in libraries, museums. "Kansei na juutakugai" (quiet residential area) fills real-estate ads. Korean "joyong / goyo / jeong-jeok / hanjeok" maps the same matrix plus the wabi-sabi aesthetic layer.
Quick check
Word for "deep silence" linked to wabi-sabi aesthetics?