噤若寒蝉 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 噤若寒蟬 jìnruòhánchán ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄢˊ ㄔㄢˊ to keep quiet out of fear (idiom) Character by character 噤(jìn)unable to speak 若(ruò)seem 寒(hán)cold 蝉(chán)cicada A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0