Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Silence (1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō)

silence; being silent; quiet; hush

reticence; inaction

to sink; to go under; to submerge

to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend

to feel depressed; to become subdued; to become somber

to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge

to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair)

to floor (an opponent)

to sink (into)

to get depressed

Also written 岩

weight (of a fishing net)

grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive

to break the silence; to break one's silence

(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom

to sink (into one's seat, etc.)

to leap to one's death (by drowning)

to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)