Category:Japanese onomatopoeias
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Japanese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
| Top – | あ い う え お | か き く け こ | さ し す せ そ | た ち つ て と | な に ぬ ね の | は ひ ふ へ ほ | ま み む め も | や ・ ゆ ・ よ | ら り る れ ろ | わ ゐ ・ ゑ を | ん |
Japanese is famously full of onomatopoeia which come in two varieties, giongo (擬音語) and gitaigo (擬態語). Giongo words represent a voice or sound and gitaigo words represent an action or an emotion.