雄弁は銀、沈黙は金

Japanese
Kanji in this term
雄 弁 銀 沈 黙 金
ゆう
Grade: S		 べん
Grade: 5		 ぎん
Grade: 3		 ちん
Grade: S		 もく
Grade: S		 きん
Grade: 1
kan’on goon kan’on goon kan’on
Alternative spellings
雄辯は銀、沈默は金 (kyūjitai)
雄弁は銀沈黙は金

Alternative forms
  • 沈(ちん)黙(もく)は金(きん)、雄(ゆう)弁(べん)は銀(ぎん) (chinmoku wa kin, yūben wa gin)
  • 沈黙は金雄弁は銀

Etymology

Calque of English speech is silver, silence is golden, originally attested as "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden" in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.

Proverb

雄(ゆう)弁(べん)は銀(ぎん)、沈(ちん)黙(もく)は金(きん) • (yūben wa gin, chinmoku wa kin) 

  1. speech is silver, silence is golden
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