ズルズル 　 -Tifa to a dilly-dallying Cloud in Final Fantasy: Advent Children. ずるずる can also written as づるづる though the former is more common. It shares an English phenotypic counterpart: to dilly-dally, as in to drag or waste time, especially in indecision. It can also mean to drag or to trail down a slope. Let’s [...]

Hyu Hyu Breathing or sighing with a husky, whistling sound is marked by a ひゅうひゅう in Japanese. The sound of the wind, too, can be described with ひゅうひゅう or ひゅうひゅうする. We witness a common example all the time in many countries outside of Japan, where men will frequently give the “wolf whistle” at beautiful, attractive [...]