無声|むせいmusei[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounsilence; noiselessness; muteness; voicelessness
2. noun, linguisticsvoicelessness; unvoicedness
   無声むせい子音しいんにこれらの規則きそくを適用てきようすることは適切てきせつだと思おもわれる。↗

   It seems appropriate to apply these rules to the voiceless consonants.

• Synonym沈黙ちんもくWrittenWritten 「沈黙」 (read 「ちんもく」) is about a person not speaking or not taking a stance; 「無声」 is an objective lack of sound.
• Synonym無言むごんWrittenWritten 「無言」 (read 「むごん」) means not speaking, saying nothing at all; 「無声」 is mostly used in compounds.
• Synonym静けさしずけさNeutralNeutral: the quietness or calm of a place and its degree, as in 「嵐の前の静けさ」; the most commonly used of these.
• Synonym静寂せいじゃくWrittenWritten word for complete, all-encompassing stillness, mostly seen in literature; 「無声」 stresses the lack of sound or of voicing itself.
• SynonymだんまりCasualColloquial: a person staying silent and not saying a word; 「無声」 describes an objective absence of sound.
• Synonym無音むおんNeutralNeutral: no sound at all, said mainly of videos and recordings, as in 「無音状態」; very close in sense to 「無声」.
• Synonym音なしおとなしCasualColloquial word for making no sound, also for hearing nothing back from someone; colloquial and not much used.
• RelatedサイレンスCasualLoanword for silence or stillness, used mostly in titles; in everyday speech 「静けさ」 is the natural choice.
• Related森閑しんかんWrittenWritten word for deep, soundless quiet, as in 「森閑とした境内」.
• Antonym有声ゆうせいWrittenThe antonym: having sound; in phonetics, produced with the vocal cords vibrating, the opposite of 「無声」; not the same as Japanese dakuon (voiced sounds).

For general quietness use 「静けさ」; for a video or recording with no sound use 「無音」. 「無声」 mostly appears in compounds such as 「無声映画」 and 「無声音」 (a sound made without vocal-cord vibration); its antonym is 「有声」. The rest are literary or colloquial variants.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 音声おんせいがないこと。
2. 声帯せいたいを振動しんどうさせないこと。