# 鸦雀无声 (yāquèwúshēng)

In Mandarin Chinese, 鸦雀无声 (yāquèwúshēng) means “absolute silence”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: absolute silence
- Pinyin: yāquèwúshēng (ya1 que4 wu2 sheng1)
- Traditional: 鴉雀無聲
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 老师一走进来，教室里鸦雀无声。
  Lǎoshī yī zǒu jìnlái, jiàoshì lǐ yāquèwúshēng.
  As soon as the teacher walked in, the classroom fell into absolute silence.

## Characters

- 鸦 (yā): crow
- 雀 (qiāo): a freckle; lentigo
- [无](https://hanziro.com/word/wu-without/) (wú): (literary) without; no, not
- [声](https://hanziro.com/word/sheng-sound-voice/) (shēng): sound, voice; (measure word) for sounds

https://hanziro.com/word/ya-que-wu-sheng-absolute-silence/

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