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'Quiet warrior' translated adjective-first. It reads like a fantasy character class.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

Reads like a class name from a role-playing game character sheet. Not embarrassing, just entirely fictional in flavour.

Meaning

Literally
quiet + warrior
Actually
Grammatical, and instantly recognisable as an English phrase converted word by word. 戦士 also skews toward RPG 'warrior' rather than anything historical.

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Correct grammar, no idiomatic basis. The な makes it visibly a translated adjective phrase.

Coolness

Five characters with hiragana in the middle breaking the block.

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  • chinchaku
    composed; unruffled under pressure
    The quality you meant by 'quiet', as a real word.
  • seichū dō
    movement within stillness
    A martial-arts concept: complete calm holding complete readiness. Three characters, and it's exactly the paradox 'quiet warrior' is reaching for.

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