鸦雀无声 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 鴉雀無聲 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yāquèwúshēng ㄧㄚ ㄑㄩㄝˋ ㄨˊ ㄕㄥ lit. crow and peacock make no sound absolute silence (idiom) not a single voice can be heard absolute silence Character by character 鸦(yā)crow 雀(què)small bird 无(wú)not to have 声(shēng)sound A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT