(Translated by https://www.hiragana.jp/)
onomatopoeia | nihonshock
Apr
28
2013

Japanese Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia. That’s a big scary term with a much less daunting meaning: any word that mimics a sound. In English, onomatopoeia consists of words like “boom”, “pop”, and “cock-a-doodle-do”.

Of course, Japanese also has onomatopoeia (which they call 擬態語ぎたいご : ぎたいご). They have LOTS of it…

Japanese Onomatopoeia
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