HSK 6 · Adjectives

寂静 jìjìng “quiet” in Chinese

Traditional 寂靜

What 寂静 means

  1. quiet
  2. still
  3. silent

How to say 寂静

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale寂jì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale静jìng4th tone, falling

寂静 in a sentence

  1. 一片寂静无声。

    Yí piàn jìjìng wúshēng.

    All was completely silent.

    Sentence #5091663 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 寂静 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 寂 (jì) with each of its parts in a different colour
寂jìsilent
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 叔uncle · shūSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 叔 (shū) hints at the sound. Compare it with jì.

The character 静 (jìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
静jìngstill
  • 青blue-green · qīngMeaning part
  • 争to dispute · zhēngSound part

青 hints at the meaning (blue-green); 争 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìng.

How to write 寂静

寂 11 strokes · 静 14 strokes

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寂静 (jìjìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 寂静 (jìjìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 寂静

Words with 寂

寂寞jìmò · lonely

Words with 静

安静ānjìng · quiet冷静lěngjìng · calm平静píngjìng · calm镇静zhènjìng · calm动静dòngjing · sound of movement

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FAQs

寂静 (jìjìng) means “quiet” or “still”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jìjìng: jì with a 4th tone, then jìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 寂静 is written 寂靜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jijing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 寂静 from the suggestions. Typing jijing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
寂静 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.