雄弁は銀、沈黙は金
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Japanese[edit]
| 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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 雄 read as ゆう
- Japanese terms spelled with 弁 read as べん
- Japanese terms spelled with 銀 read as ぎん
- Japanese terms spelled with 沈 read as ちん
- Japanese terms spelled with 黙 read as もく
- Japanese terms spelled with 金 read as きん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms calqued from English
- Japanese terms derived from English
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proverbs
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with six Han script characters