沈ちん黙もく寡か言げんMeanings1noun, na-adjectivetaciturn; reticent; of few wordsyojijukugo (four-character idiom)›A yojijukugo describing a person who is habitually silent and speaks very little. Often used in literary or formal descriptions of character.彼かれは沈ちん黙もく寡か言げんな人ひとで、会かい議ぎでもほとんど発はつ言げんしない。He is a taciturn person and hardly speaks even in meetings.