The kanji character 黙 primarily means to be silent, to keep quiet, or to say nothing.

List the readings of the kanji character: ・On-yomi (音読み): もく (moku) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): だま(る) (dama(ru))

Provide specific examples of how this kanji is used. ⚫︎黙る Translation: To be silent ⚫︎沈黙 Translation: Silence ⚫︎沈黙する Translation: To remain silent

If the user's native language is Vietnamese, the kanji and Vietnamese have about 70% correspondence rate. The modern Vietnamese word derived from Sino-Vietnamese (漢越語) that shares the same origin as this kanji is mặc, as seen in words like mặc nhiên (silently) or trầm mặc (quiet/somber).

The kanji character 黙 is a compound-ideograph or phono-semantic kanji. It combines the radical for 黒 (black) on the upper part or side and 犬 (dog) or another phonetic/semantic component historically, where 黒 relates to darkness and quietness, or the original form represented a dog holding back its bark, leading to the meaning of staying quiet.