Pika Pika The first thing that one might think about when they first read ぴかぴか is the infamous, omnipresent, and everyone’s childhood favorite – Pikachu. Pikachu enjoys his name from the term ぴかぴか, according to an interview with the creator Satoshi Tajiri. ぴかぴか can be either phenomimic or phonomimic, though both have to do with [...]

かんかん can carry three different meanings: 1) clanging noise of a bell tower, 2) a sizzling hot day, and 3)angry, furious as in he was furious. They all carry a similar meaning of high intensity in terms of either sound or heat, and the usage can be pretty clear to understand just from the context [...]

It’s springtime and the sun shines gently warm. This phenomimic onomatopoeia is known asうらうら [uraura] in Japanese. People would use this term to describe how their day is or how their day went. Much like how in English one might say, “Ah, what a beautiful day!” on the turn of spring the Japanese language also [...]

“Ton ton” is a word that is meant to represent a light concussive sound. This is frequently applied to someone jumping or the sound of chopping, such as the quick chopping of vegetables. Depending on the action depicted, good ways to translate this word are usually “hop hop” or “chop chop.”

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