静か

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. この図書館はとても静かです。▶ —
   This library is very quiet.
2. 静かにしてください。▶ —
   Please be quiet.

Collocations

Mnemonic

しずか — 静か, a Sino-Japanese-based na-adjective. 'Quiet, calm, still'. Before a noun: 静かな部屋 (a quiet room). Adverbial: 静かに歩く (walk quietly). The opposites ── うるさい urusai (noisy / i-adjective / conversational), 騒がしい sawagashii (boisterous / written). This word reaches past plain 'quietness' to become a pillar of Japanese aesthetics ── 静寂 seijaku (deep silence) and 閑寂 kanjaku (tranquil quiet) are core wabi-sabi vocabulary. In Japanese aesthetics, stillness is not absence but fullness ── the intuition that depth rises into the place where sound is gone. The Korean 'goyo / jeongjeok / hanjeok' shares the same aesthetic grain. The Korean reading jeong is sister to the onyomi せい / じょう ── 静止 seishi (a standstill), 安静 ansei (rest).

Quick check

1. Word for "deep silence" linked to wabi-sabi aesthetics?

   • Seijaku — deep silence
   • Shizuka — ordinary quiet
   • Urusai — noisy
   • Muon — soundless (technical)