沉默 (chén mò) means “taciturn; uncommunicative; silent”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
听到这个坏消息后,大家都陷入了沉默。
Tīngdào zhège huài xiāoxi hòu, dàjiā dōu xiànrù le chénmò.
After hearing this bad news, everyone fell into silence.
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