fasiha/on-mim.md

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「あっさり・アッサリ」| ① easily/readily/quickly/flatly (refuse) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.)/plainly/simply (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「あべこべ」| ① contrary/opposite/inverse/reverse/back-to-front (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「あやふや」| ① uncertain/vague/ambiguous (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「イジイジ・いじいじ」| ① hesitantly/timidly/diffidently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「いそいそ・イソイソ」| ① cheerfully/excitedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うじうじ・ウジウジ」| ① irresolute/hesitant (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うじゃうじゃ・ウジャウジャ」| ① in swarms/in clusters (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tediously/slowly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うずうず・ウズウズ」| ① itching to do something/impatient/sorely tempted/eager (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うぞうぞ」| ① irrepressibly aroused (esp. sexually)/stimulated (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うだうだ・ウダウダ」| ① going on and on (about inconsequential things)/talking nonsense (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② idling away the time/dawdling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うっかり・ウッカリ」| ① carelessly/thoughtlessly/inadvertently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うとうと・ウトウト・うとっと・ウトッと・ウトっと」| ① falling into a doze/dozing off/nodding off (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うねうね・ウネウネ」| ① winding/meandering/zigzagging/zig-zag/in twists and turns/sinuously/tortuously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うろうろ・ウロウロ」| ① restlessly/aimlessly/without purpose (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to loiter/to drift/to hang about doing nothing/to wander aimlessly/to be restless (👉 彷徨く,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ to be restless/to fuss/to be in a fidget (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うんざり・ウンザリ」| ① tedious/boring/being fed up with (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「オタオタ・おたおた」| ① flustered/flurried/(shocked) speechless (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「オドオド・おどおど」| ① timidly/nervously/hesitantly/trembling (with fear) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「おろおろ・オロオロ」| ① in confusion/in a fluster/in bewilderment/in a dither/in a panic/all shook up/helplessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sobbing/tearfully/trembling (voice) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カチカチ・コチコチ・カチコチ・かちかち・こちこち・かちこち」| ① ticktock (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock)/knocking/clicking/clacking/clattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ dry and hard/(frozen) stiff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ hidebound/die-hard/stubborn/obstinate/bigoted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ scared stiff/tense/nervous/frightened (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カチッと・カチっと・かちっと」| ① with a click (door sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with tenseness or firmness (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カチン・かちん」| ① clink/clack (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② feeling annoyed/being offended/being hurt (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かっか・カッカ」| ① to burn hotly/to burn redly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to lose one's temper/to get mad/to be upset (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かっちり」| ① tightly/exactly/precisely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② close-fitting (e.g. suit)/firm (body)/lean (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カッと・かっと」| ① flaring up/burning hotly/suddenly becoming bright (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flying into a rage/losing one's cool (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ acting resolutely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「カツカツ・かつかつ」| ① barely/scraping by (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「からから・カラカラ」| ① parched/dried-up/bone-dry (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② empty/hollow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ rattling/clattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ laughing loudly/roaring with laughter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「からっと・カラッと」| ① bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.)/perfectly (fine weather) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.)/crisply (fried, cooked, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ frankly/open-heartedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「からり」| ① with a clatter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a fling (opening a door, window, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.)/perfectly (fine weather) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.)/crisply (fried, cooked, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ cheerfully/frankly/open-heartedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ completely (forget, change, etc.)/totally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガーッと・がーっと・があっと」| ① with a grinding noise (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガクガク・がくがく」| ① trembling (with fear, cold, etc.)/shaking/chattering (of teeth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② coming loose/wobbling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がさがさ・ガサガサ」| ① rustling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② dry/rough feeling/rough to the touch (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ rough (of a person)/course/crude/unrefined/uncouth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ catching fish with a net
「ガタガタ・がたがた」| ① rattling/clattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② trembling/shivering/quaking/wobbling/swaying (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ whining/grumbling/griping/bellyaching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ rickety/shaky/wobbly/decrepit/ramshackle/broken down (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガチガチ・がちがち」| ① chattering (teeth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (frozen, worried) stiff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ rigid (personality, thinking, etc.)/inflexible/overly serious (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ voracious (e.g. work, study)/without slack or pause (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガチャガチャ・がちゃがちゃ」| ① clatter/clank/rattling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② capsule toy vending machine (👉 カプセルトイ)
「がちゃりと」| ① with a clank (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガチャン・がちゃん・ガチン・がちん」| ① (with a) slamming noise (door, telephone receiver)/(with a) banging noise/(with a) clash (broken dish)/(with a) clank/(with a) bang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がちんがちん・ガチンガチン」| ① tick-tock/chipping (sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっかり・ガッカリ」| ① to be disappointed/to be dejected/to be downhearted/to lose heart/to feel let down (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to feel exhausted/to feel drained (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっくり・ガックリ」| ① heartbroken/crestfallen/dejected/disappointed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっしり」| ① firmly/solidly/sturdily/strongly/toughly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっちり・ガッチリ」| ① solid/robust/well-built (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tight/taut (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ shrewd/calculating/astute (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっぷり」| ① firmly (grasped)/latched onto/locked onto (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガツガツ・がつがつ」| ① hungrily/greedily/voraciously/ravenously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がぶがぶ・ガブガブ」| ① gulping down (a drink)/guzzling/chugging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sloshing around (of liquid in one's stomach) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガミガミ・がみがみ」| ① nagging/griping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がやがや・ガヤガヤ・かやかや・カヤカヤ」| ① noisily (crowd of people talking)/clamorously/in a hubbub/jabberingly/chatteringly/buzzingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② loudly (laughing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ガラガラ・がらがら」| ① with a clatter/with a rattle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② empty/bare/uninhabited/vacant/unoccupied (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ raspy (voice)/gravelly/husky (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ with a gargle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ rough (personality, speech, etc.)/unreserved/outspoken/boorish/ill-mannered (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ rattle (e.g. baby's toy) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「キイキイ・キーキー・キィキィ」| ① (sharp) creak/squeak (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きちきち・キチキチ」| ① jam-packed (physically or of schedule, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② grinding noise ③ precisely/correctly (e.g. when working, etc.) ④ acrida cinerea/oriental longheaded locust (👉 精霊飛蝗)
「きちっと」| ① exactly/perfectly (👉 きちんと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きちんと」| ① properly/accurately/exactly/precisely/regularly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② neatly/tidily/orderly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きっかり・キッカリ」| ① exactly/just/precisely (👉 かっきり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② punctually/exactly on time (👉 かっきり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きっちり・キッチリ」| ① exactly/precisely/punctually/on the dot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② closely/tightly/(fitting) perfectly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ properly/without fail (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
屹度・急度「きっと・キッと」| ① surely/undoubtedly/almost certainly/most likely (e.g. 90 percent) (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sternly/severely (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ having no slack/rigid/stiff/tight (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ suddenly/abruptly/instantly (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「きっぱり・キッパリ」| ① clearly/plainly/distinctly/decisively/flatly/definitely/resolutely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きびきび」| ① brisk/lively/energetic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きゅうきゅう」| ① squeak (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きゅっと・きゅうっと」| ① creakingly/squeakingly/squealingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tightly (squeezing, pressing, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ (drinking) all in one sweep (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「キョロキョロ・きょろきょろ・きょときょと・キョトキョト」| ① (looking around) restlessly/(looking) all around/goggling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きらきら・キラキラ」| ① glittering/sparkling/glistening/twinkling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きんきん・キンキン」| ① shrill/strident/piercing/tinkling/metallic-sounding (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sharp (pain, e.g. headache, earache) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ ice-cold/very cold
「ギクシャク・ぎくしゃく」| ① awkward (movements, speech, etc.)/jerky/stiff/stilted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② strained (relations)/sour (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
刻刻・段段「ぎざぎざ・ギザギザ」| ① notches/serration/indentation/jaggies (stair-step artifacts in computer images) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ② notched/serrated/jagged/corrugated/milled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「ギスギス・ぎすぎす」| ① stiff (atmosphere, manner, etc.)/cold/unfriendly/unsociable/edgy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② thin and bony/scrawny (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎっしり・ギッシリ・ぎっちり・ギッチリ」| ① tightly (packed)/densely/closely/crammed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎゅうぎゅう」| ① creaking/squeaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② packing in tightly/cramming/squeezing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.)/tightly/with force (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ going hard (on someone)/tormenting (e.g. with questions) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎゅぎゅ」| ① snoringly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎゅっと・ギュッと・ギュっと・ギュって・ギュッて・ぎゅって」| ① tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.)/firmly/forcefully (e.g. push)/hard (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎょっと・ギョッと」| ① being startled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎょろぎょろ」| ① goggling/rolling (one's eyes) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギラギラ・ぎらぎら」| ① glaringly/dazzlingly/blazingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
限り限り「ぎりぎり・ギリギリ」| ① just barely/only just/at the very limit/at the last moment (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「くさくさ・クサクサ」| ① feeling depressed/feeling gloomy/feeling downhearted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くしゃくしゃ・クシャクシャ」| ① crumpled/rumpled/wrinkled/creased/tousled/disheveled/dishevelled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be annoyed/to be irritated/to be upset (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ noisily (chewing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グダグダ・ぐだぐだ・クタクタ・くたくた・グタグタ・ぐたぐた」| ① exhausted/tired (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② withered/worn out ③ boiling until shapeless or mushy ④ tediously/repetitively/wordily (👉 くどくど)
「くっきり」| ① distinctly (standing out)/clearly/in sharp relief/boldly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くどくど」| ① tediously/repetitively/insistently/ad nauseam/at great length (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くねくね・クネクネ・ぐねぐね・グネグネ」| ① winding/meandering/wriggling/wiggling/waving/swaying/twisting and turning (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くよくよ・クヨクヨ」| ① to fret (over)/to brood (about)/to mope/to worry (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② worriedly/(fretting) constantly/(worrying) over this and that/(obsessing) to no end (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「クラクラ・くらくら」| ① dizzy/giddy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くるくる・クルクル」| ① whirling/revolving/spinning/going round and round (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② coiling around/winding around/rolling around (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ working tirelessly/working hard (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ constantly changing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐいぐい・グイグイ」| ① without hesitation/with great optimism/vigorously/with great vigor/positively (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (pushing or pulling) strongly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ (drinking) heavily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐうぐう」| ① fast (asleep)/snoring or grumbling sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
愚図愚図「ぐずぐず・グズグズ」| ① slowly/tardily/dawdling/lingering/hesitantly (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② complaining/grumbling (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ unsettled (e.g. weather) (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ loose/slackened (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐちゃぐちゃ・グチャグチャ」| ① pulpy/soppy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sloppy/untidy/in a disarray/chaotic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐっすり・グッスリ」| ① soundly (sleeping)/fast (asleep) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐったり・グッタリ・グタリ・ぐたり」| ① limply/wearily/listlessly/languidly/exhaustedly/unenergetically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐっと」| ① suddenly/at once/in one go/with a jerk/with a gulp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② considerably/very much/a lot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ firmly/with an effort/tightly/exerting pressure (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ completely (e.g. at a loss) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ deeply (e.g. moved) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐにゃぐにゃ・グニャグニャ」| ① flabby/limp/soft and pliable (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐぶぐぶ」| ① gurgling/sound of rinsing one's mouth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グラグラ・ぐらぐら」| ① wobbling/tottering/shaking/unstably/unsteadily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② wavering (e.g. over a decision)/dithering/indecisively (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ boiling up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ dizzily/giddily (👉 くらくら) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐるぐる・グルグル」| ① (turning) round and round/in circles (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② wrapping around/winding around (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐんぐん」| ① rapidly/vigorously/by leaps and bounds/steadily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「けばけば」| ① gaudy/garish/showy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「げっそり・ゲッソリ」| ① to be disheartened/to be dejected/to be discouraged/to be disappointed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (losing a lot of weight)/looking emaciated/becoming very thin (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゲップ・げっぷ」| ① belch/burp/eructation (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こせこせ」| ① restlessly/fussily/anxiously/making a fuss over trifles (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be cramped/to be claustrophobic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こそこそ」| ① sneakily/secretly/stealthily (👉 こっそり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こっそり・コッソリ」| ① stealthily/secretly (👉 こそこそ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こつこつ・コツコツ」| ① unflaggingly/steadily/untiringly/laboriously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② knocking/tapping/clicking/drumming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「コトコト・ことこと」| ① gentle clinking/sound of rapping/sound of rattling/sound of lightly chopping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② simmering noise/light bubbling/sound of cooking something on a low flame (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ころころ・コロコロ・ころんころん」| ① lightly rolling (of a small and round thing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② pleasant, high-pitched sound (e.g. bell, young woman's laughter) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ changing frequently (e.g. conversation, plans)/(occurring) in rapid succession (e.g. sumo wrestlers being defeated)/fickly/in a fickle manner (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ roly-poly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ chirp chirp/sound of insects (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ ribbit ribbit/croak croak/sound of frogs (👉 ケロケロ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑦ roller/lint roller/paint roller (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ころり・コロリ」| ① easily/effortlessly/suddenly/utterly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② changing completely ③ plink (sound of something light falling or rolling)
「コンコン・こんこん」| ① tap-tap/knock-knock/bang-bang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cough-cough (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ bark (of a fox)/yelp/cry (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ heavily (e.g. of snow falling) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ fox (👉 狐,1) (✋ children's language)
「ごそごそ・ゴソゴソ」| ① with a rustling sound/(rummaging) around (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴタゴタ・ごたごた」| ① trouble/difficulties/dispute/quarrel/discord/dissension (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② confusion/disorder/mess/muddle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごちゃごちゃ・ごちゃ・ごっちゃ・ごちゃくちゃ・ゴチャゴチャ・ゴチャ・ゴッチャ・ゴチャクチャ」| ① messy/confused/chaotic/disorderly/mixed-up/jumbled up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② complaining about various things (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごぼごぼ」| ① gurgling/burbling/bubbling/sound of water mixing with air (e.g. water welling up, pouring water, drain pipe, gushing forth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴロゴロ・ごろごろ・ゴロンゴロン・ごろんごろん」| ① thundering/purring/grumbling (e.g. stomach) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② something large and heavy starting to roll (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ scattered about/common/commonplace/all over (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ idleness/idling about (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ thunder (✋ children's language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さくさく・サクサク」| ① crisp (not moist or juicy)/crunchy/flaky (as in pastry) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ doing skillfully and efficiently/doing quickly/proceeding smoothly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ sound of pouring liquid (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism) ⑤ speaking clearly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「さっさ・サッサ」| ① promptly/immediately/quickly/without delay (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② indifferently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さっぱり」| ① feeling refreshed/feeling relieved (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② neat/tidy/clean ③ frank/open-hearted/plain/simple/light ④ completely/entirely ⑤ not in the least (with neg. verb)/not at all ⑥ nothing at all/completely useless/hopeless/awful
「さばさば」| ① relieved/refreshed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② easy-going/laid-back/frank/candid (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さめざめ」| ① sorrowfully/anguishedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さらさら・サラサラ」| ① with a rustling sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rippling (of a stream, etc.)/murmuring/purling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ slurping down (ochazuke) (👉 お茶漬け) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter)/with ease/smoothly/fluently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ smooth and dry (hair, sand, etc.)/silky/powdery (e.g. snow)/free-flowing (e.g. blood) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ザクザク・ざくざく」| ① walking on frost/crunching (e.g. on gravel) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lots of coins or jewels (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ cutting into large pieces/loosely weaving (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ざっと」| ① roughly/approximately/round about/more or less (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cursorily/briefly/quickly/lightly/roughly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ザラザラ・ざらざら」| ① rough (touch, voice, etc.)/coarse/gritty/sandy/granular (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rattling (of beans, beads, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ざわざわ」| ① noisily (e.g. from many people talking)/creating a commotion (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rustling (leaves) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ feeling a chill/getting the chills (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しっくり」| ① exactly/nicely/to a tee (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be fitting
「しとしと」| ① gently (raining)/drizzling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② moist/damp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
屡々・屡屡・屡・数数・数々・数「しばしば」| ① often/again and again/frequently/repeatedly (👉 度々,たびたび) (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
沁み沁み・染み染み・沁沁・泌み泌み「しみじみ」| ① keenly/deeply/fully/heartily/seriously/earnestly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ② calmly/quietly/softly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ③ fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「しゃきしゃき・シャキシャキ」| ① crisp/crunchy/precise/clipped/brisk (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃぶしゃぶ」| ① shabu-shabu/thinly sliced meat boiled quickly with vegetables, and dipped in sauce (🀄️ food term) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しょんぼり」| ① downheartedly/dejectedly/dispiritedly/despondently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じくじく」| ① oozing/damp/sodden (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じたばた」| ① (kicking and) struggling/wriggling/floundering/flailing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to get into a panic/to make a fuss/to make a scene (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じっくり」| ① deliberately/carefully/thoroughly/without rushing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
凝乎と「じっと・じーっと・じーと・じいっと」| ① motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait)/(be) still (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ② fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare)/intently (e.g. listen, think) (✋ word usually written using kana alone) ③ patiently (endure)/stoically (✋ word usually written using kana alone) ④ firmly (e.g. hold)/restrained (✋ word usually written using kana alone)
「じめじめ」| ① damp/humid/wet/clammy/muggy/soggy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② gloomy/melancholy/depressing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゃあじゃあ」| ① noisily (of water gushing, pouring, spilling, splashing, spraying, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゃぶじゃぶ・ジャブジャブ」| ① splashing (water)/splashing about/with a splash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② vigorously/generously (e.g. pouring sauce)/plenty (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ greatly (using or making money) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゃりじゃり」| ① crunchy/gritty (sand, pebbles, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゅうじゅう・ジュージュー」| ① sizzling (of cooking meat, fish, etc.)/frizzling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じりじり・ジリジリ・ぢりぢり・ヂリヂリ」| ① slowly (but steadily)/gradually/bit-by-bit (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② irritatedly/impatiently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ scorchingly (of the sun) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc. (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ oozing out (oil, sweat, etc.)/seeping out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じんわり」| ① gradually (progressing)/steadily/slowly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② seeping out (sweat, tears, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「スースー・すーすー」| ① cool sensation from passing air/cool and refreshing (aftertaste) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of air leaking/sound of a sleeper's breath
「スイスイ・すいすい」| ① lightly and smoothly (of movements)/swiftly/glidingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (progressing) smoothly/(solving) easily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すたすた」| ① (walk) briskly/at a brisk pace/quickly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっかり」| ① all/completely/totally/entirely/thoroughly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっきり・スッキリ」| ① refreshingly/with a feeling of relief/pleasantly/(a weight) off one's shoulder (👉 さっぱり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shapely/neatly/refinedly ③ cleanly/without trouble ④ clearly/plainly/distinctly (👉 はっきり,1) ⑤ completely/thoroughly (👉 すっかり) ⑥ not at all (with negative sentence)/not even slightly (👉 さっぱり,5)
「スカッと・スカっと・すかっと・スカーッと」| ① refreshingly/with a feeling of relief/pleasantly/(a weight) off one's shoulder (👉 すっきり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (wearing, etc. something) elegantly/smartly/stylishly/in a refined manner (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっと・スッと・スーッと・すうっと」| ① straight/quickly/directly/all of a sudden (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② quietly/gently/softly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ to feel refreshed/to feel satisfied
「すっぱり・すぱり」| ① completely (quitting, etc.)/entirely/thoroughly/totally/wholly/without hesitation (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.)/in a single blow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すやすや」| ① (sleeping) peacefully/quietly/soundly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「スラスラ・すらすら」| ① smoothly/easily/readily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すらり」| ① long, slender and well-proportioned (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② smooth, continuous (movement) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「するする」| ① smoothly/swiftly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「するり」| ① with a smooth, unhindered motion/speedily and without delay (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すんなり」| ① slim/slender/lithe/supple (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② smoothly/without resistance/without trouble/without difficulty/without dissent/easily/readily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずかずか」| ① making a rude entrance/barging in (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ズキズキ・ずきずき」| ① throbbing with pain (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずけずけ・つけつけ・づけづけ」| ① (speak) bluntly/frankly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずっしり・ずしり・ずしっ・ズシッと」| ① heavily/profoundly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずばり・ズバリ」| ① decisively/decidedly/boldly/once and for all/unreservedly/frankly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② precisely/exactly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずらっと・ズラッと」| ① in a line/in a row (👉 ずらり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずるずる・ズルズル・づるづる」| ① (dragging a large or heavy item) slowly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (falling) little by little/(slipping) gradually/(drawing back) slowly/with a slither (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ on and on/while putting off/slovenly/interminably (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ with a slurp/with a sniffle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ loose/lax/inconclusive/unresolved (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずんずん」| ① rapidly (e.g. progress, moving forward)/growing visibly/quickly/steadily/by leaps and bounds (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「せかせか」| ① restlessly/hurriedly/agitatedly/fidgeting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そこそこ」| ① reasonably/fairly/all right/moderate (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② hurriedly/in a rush/having barely finished (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ approximately/about/or so
「そっくり」| ① all/altogether/entirely/completely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② exactly like/just like/spitting image of (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そっと・そうっと・そおっと・そーっと」| ① softly/gently/quietly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② secretly/stealthily (👉 こっそり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ to leave alone/to leave as it is (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そわそわ・ソワソワ」| ① restlessly/nervously/uneasily/in a fidget (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぞくぞく・ゾクゾク」| ① shivering/feeling chilly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shuddering (with fear)/feeling creepy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ thrilled/excited (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぞっと・ゾッと」| ① shuddering/shivering/trembling/being horrified/being disgusted (👉 ぞっとしない) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぞろぞろ・ゾロゾロ」| ① in a crowd/in droves/in a stream/in succession (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crawling (of insects)/swarming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ dragging (e.g. along the ground)/trailing/stretching out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「たじたじ」| ① overwhelmed/recoiling/cringing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「たっぷり」| ① full/in plenty/ample (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「たらたら・タラタラ」| ① drop-by-drop/dripping/dribbling/in a trickle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② incessantly (esp. speaking, e.g. complaints, compliments)/in great profusion (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「だぶだぶ・ダブダブ」| ① loose (of clothing)/baggy (👉 ぶかぶか,1;ゆったり,2;たぶたぶ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flabby/saggy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sloshing/slopping/overflowing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ plenty (of pouring a liquid)/drowning (e.g. in a sauce) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「だらだら・ダラダラ」| ① in drops/dripping/trickling/streaming/flowing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② gently (sloping) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sluggishly/endlessly/lengthily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ leisurely/idly/slowly/slovenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちぐはぐ」| ① mismatched/odd/irregular (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② inconsistent/incoherent/confused (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちびちび・ちびりちびり」| ① little by little/bit by bit/sparingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃっかり・チャッカリ」| ① shrewdly/smartly/calculatingly/astutely/cunningly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちやほや・ちゃほや」| ① to pamper/to make a fuss of/to spoil/to fawn over (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃんちゃん」| ① regularly/promptly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of clashing swords (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ Manchu queue (👉 辮髪) ④ padded sleeveless kimono jacket/Japanese vest (often for children) (👉 ちゃんちゃんこ)
「ちゃんと」| ① diligently/seriously/earnestly/reliably/steadily/legitimately (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② perfectly/properly/exactly/orderly/punctually/regularly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sufficiently/satisfactorily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ quickly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょいちょい」| ① often/frequently/now and then/occasionally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lightly (of a movement) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ easily/simply/effortlessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょこちょこ・チョコチョコ」| ① toddling/with small, quick steps (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② restlessly/in continuous motion (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ quickly and easily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ often/frequently/now and then/occasionally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょっぴり・ちょぴり」| ① a tiny bit/just a smidgin/a wee bit/very slightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょぼちょぼ」| ① sparsely/drop-by-drop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょろちょろ・チョロチョロ」| ① trickling (of water) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flickering (of fire) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ darting about (e.g. a small animal)/scampering about/moving rapidly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちらちら・チラチラ・チラッチラッ」| ① falling lightly (e.g. snow, petals, confetti)/fluttering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flickering/twinkling/glimmering/sparkling/dazzling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ appearing and disappearing/catching glimpses (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ glancing (repeatedly) (👉 ちらっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ (hear, see) from time to time/intermittently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちらっと・チラッと・チラっと・ちらと・チラと」| ① at a glance/by accident (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちんちん・チンチン」| ① penis (👉 おちんちん;ちんぼ) (✋ children's language) ② chink/jingle/tinkle/whistle (kettle) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ begging (animal) ④ jealousy ⑤ black porgy juvenile (👉 クロダイ) ⑥ flirting/fondling (👉 ちんちんかもかも) ⑦ children's game in which one hops on one foot (👉 ちんちんもがもが) ⑧ very hot (e.g. tea)
「つかつか」| ① walking briskly/determinedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
熟・熟熟・熟々「つくづく・つくつく」| ① deeply/keenly/severely/completely/utterly (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② intently/carefully/closely/attentively (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「つべこべ」| ① complaining/nitpicking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「つるつる・ツルツル」| ① smooth/shiny/slick (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slippery/greasy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ slurping (noodles) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ツンツン・つんつん」| ① aloof/morose/stuck-up/standoffish (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② smelling strongly of something/having a pungent smell (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「テカテカ・てかてか」| ① gleaming/shining/glistening (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「てくてく」| ① (walking a long distance) at a steady pace/trudgingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「てこてこ」| ① sound of walking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「でかでか」| ① in a big way (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「でれっと」| ① slack/slovenly/lackadaisical (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② moonstruck/love-struck/spoony (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「でれでれ・デレデレ」| ① idling/lazing/slovenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flirting/philandering/womanizing/being lovestruck/fawning/mooning (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とぼとぼ」| ① totteringly/trudgingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とんとん・トントン」| ① with a tap/with a knock/with a knocking sound/with a rap-tap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② smoothly (proceed)/without a hitch/without delay (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ even/equal/break-even
「ドキッと・ドキっと・どきっと」| ① being startled/getting a shock (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドキドキ・どきどき・どきんどきん・ドキンドキン」| ① thump-thump/bang-bang/pit-a-pat/pitapat/pitter-patter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to beat fast (of one's heart)/to throb/to pound/to palpitate (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドッキリ・どっきり」| ① feeling startled/getting a shock (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② prank/practical joke
「どしどし」| ① rapidly/one after the other (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② without hesitation/unreservedly/freely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sound of tramping/stomping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドタバタ・どたばた」| ① noisily (running around)/with heavy feet (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in a fluster/in a flurry/in a panic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ slapstick (👉 ドタバタ喜劇,ドタバタきげき) (✋ abbreviation)
「どっと・ドッと・ドっと」| ① bursting out (laughter)/breaking out (applause)/roaring/whooping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in a rush/in a surge/flooding in/pouring in (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly/all of a sudden (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どやどや」| ① sound of many footsteps (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
泥々・泥泥「どろどろ・ドロドロ」| ① thick/viscous/mushy/pulpy/slushy/syrupy/sticky (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ② muddy/dirty (with oil, grease, etc.) (👉 泥,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ③ to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.)/to be murky/to be sordid (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「どんどん・ドンドン」| ① drumming (noise)/beating/pounding/banging/booming/stamping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rapidly/quickly/steadily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ continuously/one after the other/in succession (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「なよなよ」| ① delicately/weakly/gently/supplely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にちゃにちゃ」| ① slimy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ニヤニヤ・にやにや」| ① grinning/smirking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にょろにょろ・ニョロニョロ」| ① slitheringly/wriggling, slipping and sliding (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぬらぬら・ヌラヌラ」| ① slimy/slippery (👉 ぬるぬる,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (moving) slowly (✋ archaism)
「ヌルヌル・ぬるぬる」| ① slimy/slippery/greasy/clammy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② smoothly (of CGI movements, video streaming, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ネチネチ・ねちねち」| ① sticky (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② persistent/insistent/nagging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のこのこ」| ① unconcernedly/nonchalantly/shamelessly/brazenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のそのそ」| ① (move) slowly (e.g. walk)/sluggishly/stolidly/ploddingly/heavily (👉 のっそり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のろのろ」| ① slowly/sluggishly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のんびり・ノンビリ」| ① at leisure/in a relaxed manner/in a carefree manner/quietly/peacefully (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「はきはき」| ① briskly/smartly/promptly/clearly/lucidly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「はっきり・ハッキリ」| ① clearly/plainly/distinctly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be clear/to be definite/to be certain/to be exact/to become clear/to clear up
「はっと・ハッと」| ① taken aback/surprised (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (realizing, understanding, becoming aware, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ quickly (of actions, changes, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ standing out/being showy/being gaudy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばさばさ・バサバサ」| ① rustling/flapping/fluttering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② unkempt (hair, etc.)/loose/dishevelled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ dry (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ decisively/with a whack (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バッチリ・ばっちり」| ① perfectly/right on the mark/spot on/bang on (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② enough/sufficiently/thoroughly/completely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バラバラ・ばらばら」| ① scattered/disperse/loose/disconnected/in pieces/in drops/rustling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばりばり・バリバリ」| ① tearing/ripping/scratching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crunching/munching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ stiff/starchy/crisp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ (working) hard/actively/vigorously/energetically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ making loud noises in succession (firing bullets, vehicle revving up, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ crackling (electricity) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱくぱく・パクパク」| ① repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth)/gasping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flapping (e.g. shoe sole)/gaping open and shut (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ heartily (eating)/devouring/munching/gobbling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱちくり」| ① blinking (in surprise) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱちっ」| ① snapping (e.g. fingers) sound/with a pop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱくり・ぱっくり・パクリ・パクり」| ① gaping (e.g. mouth, wound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② snapping into/biting into (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ cribbing/lifting/plagiarism/rip-off (👉 パクる,2)
「ぱっちり」| ① wide open (of eyes)/large and bright (eyes) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パッと・ぱっと・パっと」| ① suddenly/in a flash/rapidly/nimbly/alertly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② attractive/distinguished/showy/catching (👉 ぱっとしない)
「パリパリ・ぱりぱり」| ① crispy/crunchy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tearing/ripping/cracking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ spirited/energetic/vigorous (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ brand-new and high quality (clothing)/well-starched/crisp (bill) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱんぱん・パンパン」| ① kapow/bang/slap/clap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② bulging/filled to bursting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ prostitute (esp. just after WWII) (👉 パンパンガール)
「ひくひく」| ① twitching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヒソヒソ・ひそひそ」| ① in a whisper/in a low voice/in undertones (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひっそり」| ① quiet (place)/still/silent/deserted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② inconspicuously/modestly/quietly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょいと」| ① suddenly/unexpectedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② by chance/accidentally/casually (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ lightly/nimbly/with agility (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょこひょこ」| ① unsteady steps/bobbing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょっこり・ひょっくり」| ① all of a sudden/suddenly/by chance/unexpectedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょっと」| ① possibly/perhaps/perchance (👉 ひょっとすると;ひょっとしたら;ひょっとして) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② unintentionally/accidentally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょっとすると」| ① perhaps/maybe/possibly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょろひょろ」| ① totteringly/staggeringly/unsteadily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lanky/spindly/slender/frail (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょろり」| ① tall and thin/long and thin/lanky/spindly/gangly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひらひら・ヒラヒラ」| ① fluttering/flapping/waving (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flickering (light, flame, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism) ③ frill/piece of thin material (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヒリヒリ・ひりひり」| ① stinging (pain)/smarting/tingling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひんやり」| ① cool/chilly/feeling nice and cold (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビクビク・びくびく」| ① being afraid of/being fearful/being timid/being nervous (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② trembling/shivering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びしびし」| ① stickily/relentlessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びしょびしょ・びちょびちょ・ビショビショ・ビチョビチョ」| ① soaked/drenched/sopping/soppy/wet (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② incessantly (raining)/drizzling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びっしょり」| ① wet through/drenched (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びっしり・ビッシリ」| ① closely (packed, lined up, etc.)/tightly/densely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (work) sufficiently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びらびら・ビラビラ」| ① fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc. (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビリビリ・びりびり」| ① (tear) to pieces/(rip) apart/(rip) up/(rip) open (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a rattle/with a shudder/trembling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ feeling an electric shock (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピカピカ・ぴかぴか・ピッカピカ・ぴっかぴか・ビカビカ・びかびか」| ① with a glitter/with a sparkle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② brand new/shiny and new (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピクリ・ぴくり」| ① with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow)/with a dip/with a bob/with a flutter (👉 ぴくっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピシッと・ぴしっと」| ① with a crack/with a snap/with a slam (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② firmly/sharply/sternly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ precisely/properly/neatly/tidily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴしゃり・ピシャリ」| ① slapping/splashing/splatting/banging shut/flat (refusal, denial, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴちぴち・ピチピチ」| ① bursting with youth and energy (esp. young woman)/vivaciously young/spunky/energetic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (fish) jumping around energetically (e.g. when caught in a net) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ bursting (e.g. seams)/tight (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ splattering (e.g. cooking oil) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴったり・ピッタリ・ぴたり・ピタリ・ぴったし・ピッタシ」| ① tightly/closely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② exactly/precisely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly (stopping) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ perfectly (suited)/ideally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴょんぴょん・ピョンピョン」| ① hopping/skipping/lightly and repeatedly jumping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピリピリ・ぴりぴり」| ① stinging/smarting/tingling/burning (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② on edge/nervous/tense (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ ripping/peeling/tearing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ shrill sound of a whistle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ quivering/trembling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴんぴん・ピンピン」| ① lively/energetic/full of life (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② vigorously (jumping, flopping, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ piercing (e.g. sound)/penetrating/grating (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「フーフー・ふうふう・ふーふー・フウフウ・フゥフゥ」| ① blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② huffing and puffing/puffing and panting/gasping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ struggling (with work, studies, etc.)/having difficulty (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふらっと」| ① aimlessly/by chance/accidentally/casually/suddenly/unexpectedly (👉 ふらり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふらふら・フラフラ」| ① unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet)/shakily/staggering/tottering/reeling/dizzily/giddily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② wavering (in one's mind)/unsteadily/indecisively (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ aimlessly/unconsciously/whimsically/without thinking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふらり」| ① aimlessly/unexpectedly (showing up) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slowly swaying/staggering/moving feebly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふわっと・ふわーっと・フワーっと・フワーと」| ① floating/drifting/weightlessness (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② softly/gently/lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふわり」| ① softly/gently/lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ブウブウ・ブーブー・ぶうぶう」| ① bugling (sound)/honking/oinking/vibrating (e.g. phone) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② grumbling/complaining (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ car/automobile (✋ children's language)
「ぶかぶか・ブカブカ」| ① too large (clothing)/baggy/loose-fitting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② bulging/warping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ parp/toot/blast (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶくぶく・ブクブク」| ① bulging/swelling (e.g. with water)/loose-fitting or baggy (clothing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② bubbling/foaming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶつぶつ・ブツブツ」| ① grunt/grumble/complaint/mutter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② pimples/spots/eruption/rash ③ cutting into small pieces ④ simmering
「ブヨブヨ・ぶよぶよ」| ① soft and flabby (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶらぶら・ブラブラ」| ① dangling heavily/swaying to and fro/swinging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② strolling/rambling/roaming/wandering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ idly/lazily/leisurely/aimlessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ persisting (of an illness) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶるぶる・ブルブル」| ① trembling (with fear, anger, etc.)/shivering (with cold)/shaking/quivering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヘトヘト・へとへと」| ① completely exhausted/dead tired/knackered (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「へなへな・ヘナヘナ」| ① weakly/helplessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② weak/flimsy/easy to bend (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヘラヘラ・へらへら」| ① foolishly (laughing)/thoughtlessly (smiling) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② indiscreetly (talking)/carelessly (speaking)/frivolously/flippantly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ thin (paper, cloth, etc.)/flimsy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ flaring up/bursting into flames (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ベタベタ・べたべた」| ① sticky (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② thickly (e.g. painted)/heavily (applied) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ all over (pasting, stamping, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ clinging (e.g. of a person)/following around/being all over (each other)/flirting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ cliched/hackneyed (👉 べた,3) (✋ colloquialism)
「べちゃべちゃ・ベチャベチャ・ベチョベチョ・べちょべちょ」| ① chattering/prattling/gooey/messy (from mud, ink, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「べったり・ベッタリ」| ① sticking/clinging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a smack (e.g. sitting down)/hard (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ all over/thickly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ベトベト・べとべと」| ① being sticky (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「べらべら」| ① non-stop talking/speaking indiscreetly/chattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② thin/flimsy
「ペコペコ・ぺこぺこ」| ① very hungry/starving/famished (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fawning/bowing and scraping/being obsequious/being servile/kowtowing/bowing repeatedly/cringing (👉 ぺこん,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ giving in/being dented (👉 ぺこん,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ペラペラ・ぺらぺら」| ① fluently (speaking a foreign language) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② incessantly (speaking)/glibly/garrulously/volubly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ one after the other (flipping through pages) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ thin (paper, cloth, etc.)/flimsy/weak (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほかほか・ホカホカ・ほこほこ・ホコホコ」| ① comfortably warm/steaming hot (food)/piping hot/glowing (with warmth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほくほく・ホクホク」| ① soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.)/fluffy/crumbly/fresh-baked/fresh from the oven (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② being pleased with oneself/beaming happily/chuckling to oneself (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほっと・ホッと・ホっと」| ① with a feeling of relief/with a sigh of relief (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② deeply (sigh) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほやほや」| ① hot (e.g. from the oven)/steaming (from the pot)/fresh (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fresh (e.g. out of university)/new (e.g. married couple) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほろほろ」| ① by ones and twos (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tears or flower petals falling quietly (👉 はらはら,2;ぼろぼろ,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ gurgling bird sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ falling apart/crumbling/melting (in one's mouth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. (🀄️ food term)
「ほろり」| ① being moved (to tears)/being touched (by)/becoming sentimental (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (falling) softly (of leaves, petals, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ becoming slightly drunk/becoming tipsy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほんのり」| ① slightly/faintly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼーっと・ボーっと・ボーッと・ぼうっと・ぼおっと・ボウッと・ボウっと・ボオッと・ボオっと」| ① in a daze/absent-mindedly/vacantly/abstractedly/blankly/idly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② dimly/hazily/faintly/vaguely/indistinctly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ with a roar (of flames)/with a whoosh/flaring up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボサボサ・ぼさぼさ」| ① ruffled (hair, brush bristles, etc.)/unkempt/dishevelled/untidy/tousled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② idling away time/dawdling/dilly-dallying (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼちぼち・ボチボチ」| ① leisurely/slowly/gradually/steadily/little by little (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② soon/shortly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ here and there/scattered/dotted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ not bad/passable/so-so (🗣 Kansai-ben)
「ぼちゃん・ぽちゃん」| ① splash/plop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼつぼつ」| ① gradually/little by little/in a breezy manner (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② soon/before long (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ here and there/scattered (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ spots/dots/pimples/rash
「ぼりぼり・ぽりぽり」| ① munching/crunching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② scratching (an itch) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼろぼろ・ボロボロ」| ① worn-out/ragged/tattered/battered/scruffy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crumbling/dry and crumbly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ falling (in drops or clumps)/scattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ (physically or mentally) worn-out/exhausted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ (coming to light) one after another (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼんやり・ボンヤリ」| ① dimly/faintly/indistinctly/vaguely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② absentmindedly/vacantly/carelessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ idly/aimlessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ absence of mind/fool/blockhead/dunce
「ぽかぽか・ポカポカ・ぽっかぽか・ポッカポカ」| ① pleasantly warm/nice and warm (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② repeatedly (hitting someone)/again and again/over and over (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽかん・ポカン・ぱかん・パカン」| ① vacantly/blankly/absentmindedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② openmouthed/with one's mouth wide-open/gaping/flabbergasted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ with a whack/with a thump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポタポタ・ぽたぽた・ボタボタ・ぼたぼた・ぼとぼと・ボトボト・ポトポト・ぽとぽと」| ① dripping/trickling/drop by drop/in drops (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② wet and heavy (snow, clay, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ (moving) slowly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ぽちゃぽちゃ・ちゃぽちゃぽ・ぼちゃぼちゃ・ぴちゃぴちゃ・パチャパチャ・チャポチャポ・バチャバチャ・ピチャピチャ」| ① splashing (water) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chubby (and cute)/plump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽっきり」| ① snappingly/with a snap (👉 ぽきっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② merely .../having just ... (👉 こっきり)
「ぽってり」| ① plump/fat/thick (e.g. curry)/full (e.g. lips) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽつぽつ」| ① dots/spots ② bit by bit/little by little/gradually (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ here and there/scattered/dotted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ in drops/(falling) lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽろぽろ・ポロポロ」| ① in large drops (👉 ぼろぼろ,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「まあまあ」| ① so-so/passable (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② now, now ③ my, my (✋ female term or language)
「まごまご」| ① confused/flustered/at a loss (👉 まごつく) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「まざまざ」| ① plainly/clearly/vividly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「まんまと」| ① successfully/fairly/artfully/nicely/thoroughly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「みんみん」| ① sound of the cicadas (👉 みんみん蝉,みんみんぜみ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムカムカ・むかむか」| ① feeling sick/feeling queasy/feeling nauseated (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② being angry/being offended/being disgusted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムズムズ・むずむず」| ① to feel itchy/to itch/to feel creepy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be impatient/to itch (to do something)/to be eager
「むっつり」| ① sullenly/taciturnly/morosely/gloomily/silently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② taciturn person/uncommunicative person
「むにゃむにゃ・ムニャムニャ・もにゃもにゃ・モニャモニャ」| ① (mumbling) incomprehensibly/while mumbling/mutteringly/murmuringly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むんむん・ムンムン」| ① stuffy/steamy/sultry (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「メキメキ・めきめき」| ① remarkably/markedly/rapidly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of breaking or creaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「メソメソ・めそめそ」| ① sobbing/weeping/whimpering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もじもじ・モジモジ」| ① bashfully/hesitantly/fidgety/restlessly/squirming/wriggling/haltingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もたもた・モタモタ」| ① slowly/inefficiently/tardily/dawdling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もっこり・モッコリ」| ① bulging (esp. of male genitals under clothing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もやもや・モヤモヤ」| ① hazy/misty/foggy/murky/fuzzy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② hazy feeling/uncertain feeling/feeling gloomy/feeling depressed/pent-up feelings/ill feeling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もりもり・モリモリ」| ① (eating) heartily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② energetically/vigorously/(working) hard/enthusiastically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ bulging (muscles)/welling up (of strength, courage, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「やきもき・ヤキモキ」| ① anxiously/impatiently/worriedly/fretting/getting worked up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「やっと」| ① at last/at length (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② barely/narrowly/just/by the skin of one's teeth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゆさゆさ」| ① swaying (with large slow movements)/shaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゆっくり」| ① slowly/unhurriedly/without haste/leisurely/at one's leisure (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② easily (e.g. in time)/well/sufficiently/amply/with time to spare (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ well (e.g. sleep)/comfortably (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
揺ら揺ら「ゆらゆら・ユラユラ」| ① swaying/swinging/rocking/shaking/wavering/flickering (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
緩緩・緩々「ゆるゆる」| ① very loose/slowly/leisurely (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「よちよち」| ① totteringly/with tottering steps/toddling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「よぼよぼ」| ① doddering/tottering/unsteady/shaky/decrepit/infirm/frail/feeble (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「よろよろ・ヨロヨロ」| ① tottering/staggering/faltering/reeling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ワイワイ・わいわい」| ① noisily/clamorously/boisterously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.)/going on and on/making a fuss (of something)/playing up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ loudly (crying)/wailing/bawling/howling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わくわく・ワクワク」| ① trembling/getting nervous/excited/thrilled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わらわら・ワラワラ」| ① bustling/shuffling/squirming/creepy crawly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カサカサ・かさかさ」| ① dry and rough/desiccated (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rustling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガンガン・がんがん」| ① clanging/banging/booming/loudly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② throbbing (headache)/pounding/splitting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ fully/vigorously/hard (e.g. working)/flat out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; colloquialism)
「クンクン・くんくん」| ① sniff/sniff-sniff (esp. an animal)/whining/whimpering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐりぐり・グリグリ」| ① hard lump under the skin (e.g. adipous tumor, lymph node tumor, etc.) ② grinding against/pressing or rubbing with turning movements (e.g. someone's shoulders with one's elbow) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ rolling one's eyes/goggling one's eyes/googly eyes ④ rattling sound
「ケロケロ・けろけろ・ゲロゲロ・げろげろ・ゲコゲコ・げこげこ」| ① croak/ribbit/sound of frogs (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴツン・ごつん」| ① thud/thump/bang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ザーザー・ざーざー・ざあざあ」| ① (raining) heavily/(water rushing) plentily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with white noise/with a buzz (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シュポシュポ」| ① pump-pump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ジワジワ・じわじわ」| ① slowly (but steadily)/gradually/bit-by-bit (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slowly soaking in/slowly permeating/oozing out/seeping out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ズシン・ずしん」| ① thud (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「タポタポ・たぽたぽ」| ① bloated (with liquid; of a stomach) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チン・ちん・チーン・ちーん」| ① ding (of a bell)/bing/ting/tinkle/ring (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose)/snort (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ heating in a microwave/cooking in a microwave/microwaving/nuking (👉 チンする) (✋ colloquialism) ④ penis (👉 ちんちん,1) (✋ abbreviation; slang)
「チェ・チェッ・ちぇ・ちぇっ・ちっ・チッ」| ① tsk/tut/shoot/dang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chirp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チクチク・ちくちく」| ① prickling/stinging/tingling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちくり・チクリ」| ① prickling/stinging/biting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tale-telling/tattling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チョキチョキ・ちょきちょき」| ① snipping sound/cutting sound/to cut (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドタン・どたん」| ① thud (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドンパチ・どんぱち」| ① sound of pistol fire/sound of exploding gunpowder (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② exchange of (pistol) fire/shootout/conflict/war (✋ colloquialism)
「ニコニコ・にこにこ」| ① with a friendly grin/smilingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヌーボー・ヌーヴォー・ヌーヴォ」| ① modern/up-to-date ② art nouveau (👉 アールヌーボー) (✋ abbreviation) ③ Beaujolais nouveau (wine) (👉 ボージョレヌーボー) (✋ abbreviation) ④ vague/fuzzy/elusive/slippery/mysterious (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ハラハラ・はらはら」| ① to feel anxious/to feel nervous/to be kept in suspense/to feel excited/to feel thrilled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fluttering down/trickling down (e.g. tears) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ hanging untidily (of hair)/straggling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バタバタ・ばたばた」| ① flapping/rattling (sound)/noisily/clattering noise (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② commotion/kerfuffle
「バタン・ばたん」| ① bang/slam/thud/crash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パサパサ」| ① state of being dried out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パチパチ・ぱちぱち」| ① crackling/cracking/snapping/popping/clicking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② clapping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ incessantly (blinking) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱらぱら・パラパラ」| ① sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.)/pattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flipping (through a book, etc.)/riffling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sparse/scattered/sporadic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ crumbly (e.g. tofu, cheese)/loose/non-sticky (e.g. rice) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピンポン・ピンポーン」| ① ping-pong/table tennis ② exactly!/surely!/that's it! ③ ding dong (sound of door bell, chime, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「フワフワ・ふわふわ」| ① lightly (floating, drifting, etc.)/buoyantly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② soft/fluffy/spongy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ unsteadily/flightily/fickly/frivolously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷかぷか・プカプカ」| ① lightly (floating)/buoyantly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.)/blowing (a flute, whistle) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プリプリ・ぷりぷり・ぶりぶり」| ① angrily/in a huff/in anger (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② high on marijuana (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ tender (to chew) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プンプン・ぷんぷん」| ① (smelling) strongly/pungently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② furiously/indignantly/fuming/in a huff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ペロペロ・ぺろぺろ」| ① licking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼやぼや・ボヤボヤ」| ① to be careless/to be inattentive/to be absentminded/to be slow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ flaring up (fire)/rising (e.g. steam) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ポタリ・ぽたり」| ① drip/fall drop-by-drop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (of drops of water)
「ポンポン・ぽんぽん」| ① pompon/pompons/bobbles ② tummy/tumtum (✋ children's language) ③ bang-bang/pop-pop/tap-tap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ without reservation/unreservedly/snappishly/outspokenly
「メロメロ」| ① madly in love (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② falling down drunk
「ワンワン・わんわん」| ① bow-wow/woof/arf/barking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② wah-wah/bawling/wailing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ clamouring/clamoring/echoing/loudly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ dog/doggy/bow-wow (✋ children's language)
「がりがり・ガリガリ」| ① crunching/chewing or crushing something hard/scraping/scratching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② hard and crunchy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ very skinny/emaciated/all skin and bones (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
吃驚・喫驚「びっくり・ビックリ」| ① to be surprised/to be amazed/to be frightened/to be astonished/to get startled/to jump (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② surprise (e.g. surprise party) (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そろそろ・ソロソロ」| ① slowly/quietly/steadily/gradually/gingerly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② soon/momentarily/before long/any time now (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
確り・聢り「しっかり」| ① tightly (holding on)/firmly/securely (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② strongly (built)/solidly/sturdily/steadily (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ properly/well/sufficiently/hard (working, etc.)/fully/completely (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ reliably/dependably/levelheadedly/shrewdly/wisely/cleverly (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がらん」| ① clanging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② empty/deserted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むしゃむしゃ・ムシャムシャ」| ① munching/devouring/gobbling up/ravenously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shaggy/disheveled/unkempt (👉 もしゃもしゃ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「もじゃもじゃ・モジャモジャ」| ① tousled/shaggy (hair)/scraggly (beard)/dishevelled/disheveled/unkempt (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゲラゲラ・げらげら」| ① guffawing/roaring (with laughter)/(laughing) heartily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がじゃがじゃ」| ① rummaging (in a drawer) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「あたふた・アタフタ」| ① in a hurry/hastily/in feverish haste (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うっとり・ウットリ」| ① ecstatically/spellbound/with rapt attention (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② abstractedly/absentmindedly/absorbedly/vacantly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「おいおい・オイオイ」| ① Hey!/Wait a minute!/Whoa! (👉 おい,1) ② boohoo/waaaa (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かたかた・カタカタ」| ① clattering/rattling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がたり」| ① with a bang (clash, bump) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きしきし」| ① squeak/creak (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「キリキリ・きりきり」| ① chafing/grinding (e.g. teeth) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② binding tightly/pulling tight (e.g. a bow) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ rotating quickly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ hurting sharply (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ briskly/quickly/promptly/at once/right away (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
転「くるり」| ① turning around (once) (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly/abruptly ③ completely (wrapped in something)/quickly (unwrapping something) ④ beautiful, round (eyes) ⑤ flail (for threshing grain) (👉 くるり棒) (✋ abbreviation)
「グラッと・グラっと・ぐらっと」| ① shaking violently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐんと・グンと」| ① remarkably/noticeably (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐんにゃり・ぐんなり」| ① limp/listless/enervated/having no energy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flaccid/wilting/soft/having no shape (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴツゴツ・ごつごつ」| ① rugged/scraggy/angular/gnarled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
強強・強々「ごわごわ・ゴワゴワ」| ① stiff/starchy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「ざあっ・ザーッ」| ① sound of water (👉 ザーザー,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ざっくざっく」| ① crunch crunch/thud thud/tramp tramp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しーん・しいん・シーン」| ① silently (as the grave)/quietly (as in death) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃんと」| ① being in shape/holding a dignified appearance (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しんと・シンと」| ① silent (as the grave)/deadly silent/deathly quiet (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっくと」| ① straight/upright/erect (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とろとろ・トロトロ」| ① sticky/syrupy/pulpy (👉 とろみ;とろっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② weakly (of a flame)/gently (e.g. boil)/simmering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ dozing off/napping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ sluggishly/dawdling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どうどう・ドードー」| ① with a roaring sound (of water or wind)/sound of feet stamping on the ground (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) (👉 どう)
「どくどく」| ① gushingly/copiously/profusely/in a steady stream (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドシン・どしん」| ① plump/with a thud/heavily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どたりと」| ① with a flop/flump/plump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どっしり・ドッシリ」| ① bulky and heavy/massive/solid/weighty/substantial (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② dignified/imposing/composed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にたにた・ニタニタ」| ① with a broad grin/smirking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にっこり・ニッコリ・にこり・ニコリ」| ① sweetly (smiling)/broadly (grinning) (👉 ニコニコ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゃー・にゃあ・にゃお・にゃあご」| ① meow/miaow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「はあはあ・ハーハー・ハアハア・ハァハァ」| ① gasp/pant (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばさり」| ① with a thud (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばったり・バッタリ・ばたり・バタリ・ばったん・バッタン」| ① with a clash/with a thud/with a bang/with a flop/plump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② unexpectedly (meeting someone) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly (ending)/abruptly (coming to a halt) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びちゃびちゃ」| ① splashing/dabbling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴたっと・ピタッと」| ① tightly/closely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② exactly/precisely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly (stopping) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴょこん・ピョコン」| ① quickly, in a bouncing way (e.g. for a bow) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふかふか・フカフカ」| ① soft (and fluffy) (e.g. bed, bread, baked potato) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② absent-mindedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ふっと・ふうっと・ふーっと・フーッと」| ① with a whiff/with a puff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly/abruptly/without warning
「へどもど」| ① flustered/flurried/stuttering (e.g. an apology) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺったり・ペッタリ」| ① closely (sticking, clinging, etc.)/tightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポン・ぽん」| ① with a slap/with a pop/with a plop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② without batting an eyelid (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ generously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ cutesy suffix applied to names (✋ female term or language; slang)
「むしゃくしゃ・ムシャクシャ」| ① vexed/irritated/fretful/in ill humour/in ill humor/in a temper (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shaggy/bushy/ragged/rugged (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
群々・群群・叢々・叢叢・斑々・斑斑「むらむら・ムラムラ」| ① irresistibly/suddenly (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be turned on/to be horny (✋ colloquialism)
「もしゃもしゃ・モシャモシャ」| ① tousled/shaggy (hair)/scraggly (beard)/dishevelled/disheveled/unkempt (👉 もじゃもじゃ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もぞもぞ・もそもそ」| ① creeping about/stirring restlessly/squirming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヨレヨレ・よれよれ」| ① worn-out/shabby/seedy/wrinkled-up/threadbare (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くつくつ」| ① stifled (laughter) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② simmering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちりちり」| ① bits and pieces/frizzily (as in perm) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゃんにゃん・ニャンニャン・にゃにゃ・ニャニャ」| ① meow/miaow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cat (✋ children's language) ③ sexual intercourse/making out (✋ slang)
「ぺちゃくちゃ・ペチャクチャ」| ① chattering/chit-chat/(ladies) prattle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「りんりん」| ① bell ringing (chiming) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
房房・房々・総総・総々・多多・多々「ふさふさ・フサフサ」| ① in tufts/tufty/bushy/thick/luxuriant (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どさくさ」| ① confusion/bustle/turmoil/trouble (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rushing around/acting frantically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のんどり」| ① tranquil/leisurely/relaxed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しょぼしょぼ」| ① drizzling (rain) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② blearily/weakly (blinking) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ dejectedly/gloomily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ・ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ」| ① with a burble (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② hollow (sounding) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ holey/full of holes or dents/lumpy/bumpy ④ viciously beating/hitting and kicking repeatedly (✋ colloquialism) ⑤ here and there (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ (sound of) walking slowly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゃーん・ジャーン・じゃん・ジャン」| ① ta-dah!/ta-da!/voilà! (👉 じゃじゃーん) ② clash/crash/bang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じいんと・ジーンと・ジンと・じーんと・じんと」| ① extremely cold feeling that makes one feel numb/sharp pain that is almost numbing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② heartrending/touching the heart
「とことん」| ① the very end/finish (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to the very end/to the last/thoroughly/completely/fully (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガシャン・ガッシャン・がしゃん・がっしゃん」| ① crash/smash/crunch/bang/breaking sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガツン・がつん」| ① klop/klunk/whonk/crash/thump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a heavy impact/forcibly (👉 がつんと言う) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドスン・どすん」| ① bam/whomp/thump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポツリポツリ・ぽつりぽつり」| ① intermittently/bit by bit/little by little/by ones and twos (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in drops (e.g. of rain) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うようよ・ウヨウヨ」| ① in swarms/crawling with (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うんと」| ① a great deal/very much/a lot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a great amount of effort (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ガクンと・がくんと」| ① suddenly/with a jerk (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がぶり」| ① emphatically (bite, gulp, chew, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がらり・ガラリ」| ① loudly (flinging open a door)/with a clatter/with a rattle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a crash (e.g. of a falling structure) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ completely (change)/utterly/totally/suddenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ louvre window (door, vent, etc.)
「きょとん・キョトン」| ① (looking) blankly/vacantly/dazedly/(staring) in puzzlement/with a look of amazement (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎゃあぎゃあ・ギャーギャー」| ① screaming/squawking/squealing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② loud complaining/noisy conversation (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くすくす・クスクス」| ① chuckle/giggle (👉 くすくす笑う,くすくすわらう) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐいっと・グイッと・ぐいと・グイと」| ① suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in a single gulp/in one go (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グサリと・ぐさりと」| ① deeply (stab, thrust, etc.)/hard (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐつぐつ・グツグツ」| ① simmering/(boiling) gently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐるっと・ぐるりと」| ① turning round/going around/turning about/rotating (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② surrounding/encircling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こっくり・コックリ・こくり・コクリ」| ① nodding (in agreement, with approval, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② repeatedly nodding and dozing off (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly (dying) (👉 ぽっくり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ deep (flavor, flavour, color, colour, etc.)/rich (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こっくりこっくり・コックリコックリ」| ① niddle-noddle/nid-nod/nodding off (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こってり・ごってり」| ① thickly/heavily/richly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② severely/strongly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こんがり・コンガリ」| ① well-cooked/well-done/browned (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こんもり」| ① thickly/densely/luxuriantly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴシゴシ・ごしごし」| ① scrubbing hard/scrubbing clean (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごみごみ」| ① squalid/messy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じろり」| ① glancing (look) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すくすく」| ① (growing) quickly (esp. children, plants)/(developing) quickly/fast/rapidly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すらっと・スラッと・スラっと」| ① slender/slim (👉 すらり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ズバズバ・ずばずば」| ① straightforwardly/being outspoken (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずらり・ズラリ」| ① in a row/in a line (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「せっせと」| ① diligently/assiduously/industriously/beavering away (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちらほら」| ① here and there/in twos and threes/sporadically/sparsely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② now and then/from time to time/occasionally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チラリ・ちらり」| ① fleeting (glimpse, glance, etc.) (👉 ちらっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「てきぱき・テキパキ・てきばき・テキバキ」| ① briskly/quickly/promptly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とっぷり」| ① completely/fully/entirely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どかっと・どかと」| ① thuddingly/plumping down (like a heavy weight) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どかどか」| ① noisily/with loud footsteps (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in a crowd/incessantly/all together
「どぎまぎ・ドギマギ」| ① flurried/flustered/upset/nervous/embarrassed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どっかと」| ① with a thump/floppingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どっさり・ドッサリ」| ① heaps/a lot/plenty/oodles (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a thud (👉 どさり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どんより」| ① dark/gloomy/overcast/gray (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② heavy/leaden/dull/lackluster/glazed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のほほん」| ① nonchalantly/without a care (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のらくら」| ① idly/lazily/aimlessly (👉 のらりくらり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② evasively/elusively/vaguely/non-committally (👉 のらりくらり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ laziness/fooling around/lazy person (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のらりくらり・ぬらりくらり」| ① idly/lazily/aimlessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② evasively/elusively/vaguely/non-committally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ soft and slippery (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶらり」| ① dangling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② aimlessly/casually/idly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ unexpectedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶんぶん・ブンブン」| ① buzz/hum (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shake/shaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷんと」| ① crossly/angrily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② strongly smelling/reeking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺちゃんこ・ぺしゃんこ・ぺっちゃんこ・ぺったんこ・ペッタンコ・ぺたんこ」| ① crushed flat/flattened/squashed/flat-topped (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flat-chested girl (✋ colloquialism; manga slang) ③ sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺろりと・ぺろっと」| ① while sticking out one's tongue (👉 ぺろり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほっそり」| ① slim/slender/slight/delicate (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽっかり」| ① lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② gaping wide (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly/unexpectedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポツリ・ポツン・ぽつり・ぽつん・ぽっつり・ポッツリ」| ① isolated/standing alone (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② falling in drops (e.g. rain) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ saying a single word/muttering just a few words (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「めらめら」| ① flaring up/bursting into flames (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もくもく・モクモク」| ① rising (smoke, clouds, etc.)/rolling up/billowing up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もぐもぐ・もごもご」| ① mumbling/chewing one's words (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chewing (food) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ squirming/wriggling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゆったり」| ① comfortable/easy/calm/relaxed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② loose/spacious
「ぷにぷに・プニプニ」| ① squishy/springy/bouncy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺこん・ぺこり・ぺこりん」| ① sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head/(with a) bob of the head (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「みっちり」| ① intensely/severely/strictly/hard/fully/earnestly/diligently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tightly/compactly/closely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぬめっと」| ① glistening/shiny/sleek/slippery (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じろじろ・ジロジロ」| ① staringly/scrutinizing/scrutinising (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どたどた・ドタドタ」| ① noisily (esp. the noise of heavy feet) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カンカン・かんかん」| ① extremely angry/furious/enraged (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fiercely (shine)/blazingly/intensely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ merrily (burn away)/red-hot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ with a clang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わっと・ワッと・ワっと」| ① suddenly and in a loud voice (e.g. sobbing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「おっとり」| ① gently/quietly/calmly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずぶり」| ① (stabbing) through/(plunging) into (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しょぼん」| ① downheartedly/dejectedly/dispiritedly/despondently (👉 しょんぼり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひたひた」| ① lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② steadily (advancing)/gradually (approaching) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object)/just enough (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ speedily/promptly/quickly/smoothly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism) ⑤ closely/exactly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ごろっと・ごろりと」| ① slumping/flopping down (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② heavily rotating
「むっちり・ムッチリ」| ① plump/chubby/voluptuous (👉 ムチムチ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うふふ・ウフフ」| ① tee-hee (✋ female term or language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うろちょろ・ウロチョロ」| ① loitering/hanging around/wandering around (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「えへへ」| ① heh heh heh/tee-hee/giggle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギンッ」| ① sharply (glare, stare, etc.)/piercingly/stinging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② clashing (of swords, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「まったり・マッタリ」| ① rich (taste)/full-bodied (flavour, flavor)/mellow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② laid-back (lifestyle)/relaxed/comfortable (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うつらうつら・ウツラウツラ」| ① drowsily/nodding off (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガーガー・がーがー・ガアガア・があがあ」| ① quacking/cackling/gaggling/croaking/squawking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② loudly (snore, complain, argue, etc.)/noisily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ with a buzzing sound (e.g. speaker)/with a crackling sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カーカー・かあかあ・かーかー」| ① caw caw/sound made by crows (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crow (✋ slang; children's language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「メーメー・メエメエ」| ① baa (sound made by sheep)/meh (👉 メー) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こけこっこう・こけこっこー・コケコッコー・こけっこう・こけこっこ」| ① cock-a-doodle-doo (sound made by cockerels, roosters) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cockerel/rooster (childish term) (✋ slang)
「チューチュー・ちゅうちゅう」| ① squeak/cheep/peep (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slurp/sucking noisily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ mouse (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; children's language)
「どっぷり」| ① totally (immersed in something, e.g. liquid, work)/addicted (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポキッと・ぽきっと・ぼきっと」| ① snappingly/with a snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽっくり・ポックリ」| ① (dying) suddenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (breaking) brittly/with a snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ softly and swellingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そそくさ」| ① hurriedly/in haste (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごっそり」| ① completely/entirely/all (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in large amounts/a lot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とろん」| ① appearing drowsy or intoxicated (of eyes, actions, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「だらり・だらん」| ① languidly/loosely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビュービュー・びゅうびゅう・ヒューヒュー・ひゅうひゅう・ビュウビュウ・ピュウピュウ・ぴゅうぴゅう」| ① whistling sound/wheezing sound/sound of the wind/wuthering/howling/soughing/moaning (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「スコスコ」| ① repeatedly/leaving no stone unturned/walking rapidly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② masturbation (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゼーゼー・ゼイゼイ・ゼエゼエ・ぜーぜー・ぜいぜい・ぜえぜえ」| ① gasping for breath/puffing and panting/wheezing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちまちま」| ① small/compact (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
戛戛・戛々・戞戞・戞々「かつかつ・カツカツ」| ① clicking/clopping/clacking (✋ word usually written using kana alone; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「おめおめ・オメオメ」| ① shamelessly/acting brazenly unaffected (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② being resigned to (disgrace)
「ちんたら」| ① dilatorily/sluggishly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to take a lot of time/to become late/to take it easy
「ガシガシ・がしがし」| ① boisterously/roughly/briskly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「げんなり・ゲンナリ」| ① to be weary/to be worn out/to be tired (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be fed up (with)/to be sick of (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ to be dejected/to be dispirited/to be disheartened (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふんわり・フンワリ」| ① gently/airily/fluffily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「えへらえへら」| ① with a meaningless laugh/with a hollow laugh (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごにょごにょ」| ① mumblingly/mutteringly/unintelligibly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くだくだ」| ① tediously/lengthily/wordily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼけっと・ボケッと・ボケっと」| ① absent-mindedly/idly/vacantly/doing nothing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かしゃっ」| ① with a click (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かたり・かたん・カタン」| ① with a clatter/clatteringly (👉 かたっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カチャカチャ・かちゃかちゃ」| ① clink/clatter/clang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かちり・カチリ」| ① with a clink (click, clack) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かっきり・カッキリ」| ① exactly/just/precisely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② punctually/exactly on time (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ clearly delineated (of boundaries, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「メー・メエ」| ① baa (sound of a sheep)/meh (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どさどさ」| ① throwing down multiple objects in succession (👉 ドサ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② at once in great numbers
「どっかり・ドッカリ」| ① plunking (down something heavy)/flumping (into a chair) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のうのう・ノウノウ」| ① careless/carefree (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギラッと・ギラっと・ぎらっと」| ① dazzlingly (👉 ぎらぎら) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「クラッと・くらっと・クラっと」| ① dizzyingly (👉 くらくら) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to feel dizzy
「ゴーっ」| ① roaringly/rumblingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チカチカ・ちかちか」| ① flickering/flashing on and off/twinkling/glittering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② glaringly (bright)/painfully (bright) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ prickling (pain) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピシャッと・ぴしゃっと・ピシャっと」| ① slapping/splatting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピリッと・ピリっと・ぴりっと」| ① tingling/stinging/pungently (👉 ぴりぴり,1;ぴりり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ベロベロ・べろべろ」| ① licking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② dead drunk/blind drunk
「カリカリ・かりかり」| ① crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.)/crunchy (👉 こりこり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② grumpily/touchily/edgily/irritably (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ scratching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「からころ・からんころん・カラコロ・カランコロン」| ① clip-clop (esp. of geta) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゅっと・ぬっと・ぬうっと・のっと・にょっと」| ① suddenly (appear, stick out)/abruptly/unexpectedly/looming (e.g. out of the dark) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (stand) still and expressionless/imposingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly (stand up) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かちゃり」| ① with a clang or a clink/tinkle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひらり」| ① nimbly/lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふっくら」| ① fully/luxuriantly/fluffy/plump/soft and full (👉 ふっくり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わなわな」| ① trembling from fear/trembling all over (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱちり・パチリ」| ① (with a) click (e.g. camera shutter)/(with a) snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どさっと・ドサっと」| ① with a thud (👉 ドサ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がさっ・ガサッ」| ① with a swoosh/at one fell swoop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビンビン・びんびん」| ① hard (e.g. penis)/strong (e.g. beat of music)/throbbing (e.g. headache)/blaring (e.g. rock music) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほっこり」| ① warm and fluffy/soft (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② steamy hot (food)/hot and flaky ③ feeling mentally tired/feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance (🗣 Kansai-ben)
「ぱたり」| ① with a clink/with a flop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly/all of a sudden (👉 ぱったり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷいと・ぷいっと」| ① suddenly in a bad mood/in a huff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② abruptly/suddenly/unexpectedly (👉 ふいと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すうすう」| ① sound of wind rustling through a crack/wheezing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピーピー・ぴーぴー・ぴいぴい・ピイピイ」| ① peep/chirp/beep/whistling, chirping, piping, etc. sound made by birds, insects, pipes, children, etc. (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② poor/hard up/pinched ③ the runs/diarrhea/diarrhoea ④ flute/pipe ⑤ beginner/novice
「ざぶざぶ・ザブザブ」| ① splashing/sloshing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
頓と「とんと」| ① completely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ② not at all (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「ぶくり」| ① sound of something floating or sinking in water (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヒーヒー・ひいひい」| ① whaa whaa/sound of a baby crying (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐしゃぐしゃ・グシャグシャ」| ① soggy/mushy/crumpled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「けろり」| ① completely/entirely (👉 けろっと,1;すっかり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nonchalantly/as if nothing happened (👉 けろっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっぽり・ずっぽり・ずっぽし」| ① entirely/completely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cleanly/snugly
「ついつい」| ① unintentionally/unconsciously/by mistake/heedlessly/against one's better judgement (judgment) (👉 つい,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がさごそ」| ① rustling (sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガシャッ・がしゃっ」| ① (with a) crack (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガタゴト・がたごと」| ① rattling/clattering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がたん・ガタン」| ① with a bang/with a crash/with a bump/with a jolt (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (fall)/sharply (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっぽがっぽ」| ① in large quantities (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガッポリ・がっぽり」| ① in large quantities (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガバガバ・がばがば」| ① oversized (clothing)/baggy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rolling in (of money)/(profiting) greatly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sloshing (e.g. of water)/gushing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がばっと・がばと・がはと・かばと」| ① suddenly/all of a sudden/quickly/emphatically/energetically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がらんがらん」| ① clanging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ウラウラ・うらうら」| ① gently and clearly shining (like the sun in springtime) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チャラチャラ・ちゃらちゃら」| ① jingle/jangle/clinking/jingling/jangling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chatty/nattering/chattering away/yatter/joking around/messing around (👉 ちゃらける) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ coquettish/tawdry/flirty/flashy/flighty/jittery/superficial (👉 ちゃらい) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビシッと・びしっと・ビシっと」| ① with a snap/(break) cleanly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (reject) sternly/flatly ③ smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)
「もさもさ・モサモサ」| ① to be hairy (person)/to be thickly bearded (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be dense (vegetation)/to be thick (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ to be slow (person)/to be dull (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がん・ガン」| ① thump/thud (dull sound representing something being hit) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② severe/difficult/hard ③ card marking (on a hanafuda, etc. card)/alteration
「キャンキャン・ギャンギャン・きゃんきゃん・ぎゃんぎゃん」| ① yelp/yap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わあわあ」| ① loudly (wailing, making a noise, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すとん・ストン」| ① (with a) thump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (hanging) straight down (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「コテンパン・こてんぱん・コテンパ・こてんぱ」| ① completely (beaten, defeated, etc.)/thoroughly/utterly/black and blue/to a pulp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シャカシャカ・しゃかしゃか」| ① nylon track suit (when worn as street fashion) (👉 シャカパン) (✋ slang) ② rattle-rattle/rustle-rustle/whisper-whisper/squiff-squiff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽろり」| ① dropping (of tears, dew, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② falling off/dropping off/slipping (e.g. from one's hands) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ inadvertently (coming to the surface)/letting out (e.g. a secret) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギクリ・ぎくり」| ① (with a) start/fright/alarm (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「やっさもっさ」| ① hurly-burly/helter-skelter/hustle and bustle/turmoil (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がっつり・ガッツリ」| ① firmly/plentifully/with all one's might (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さくっ・サクッ」| ① with a crunching or grinding sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② quickly/promptly/abruptly/simply/efficiently ③ crispily/crunchily (👉 さくさく,1)
「ぼやっと・ボヤっと」| ① absentmindedly/dazedly/vaguely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きゃぴきゃぴ・キャピキャピ」| ① brimming with youthful enthusiasm/in high spirits/raring to go/overflowing with youthful energy/acting all cute and charged up (👉 浮き浮き) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; colloquialism)
「うかうか・ウカウカ」| ① carelessly/inattentively (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かん・くわん」| ① ding/chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ケラケラ・けらけら」| ① cackling (sound of shrill laughter) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ころっと」| ① sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② easily ③ suddenly ④ completely (e.g. forgetting)/utterly ⑤ disappointing ⑥ curling up into the fetal position/going to sleep suddenly
「しくしく」| ① weeping/sobbing/softly (crying) (👉 しくしく泣く) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a prolonged dull pain/having a griping pain (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しっとり」| ① calm/graceful/gentle/soft (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② quiet/mellow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ damp/moist (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じいじい」| ① sizzle (sound of meat cooking) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shrill droning of a cicada
「じろっと」| ① glancing (look) (👉 じろり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずしずし」| ① thump/thud (sound representing the footfalls of something heavy) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずんぐり」| ① short and stout/small but wide around (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずんぐりむっくり」| ① very short and stout/small but quite wide around (👉 ずんぐり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そよそよ・ソヨソヨ」| ① gently (of the wind)/softly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちりんちりん」| ① jingle/ding/ringing of small bells (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃりしゃり・シャリシャリ」| ① sound of two hard thin objects rubbing together/crunch crunch (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょこん・ちょこなん」| ① slightly (of an action)/(looking) small and quiet (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょんちょん・チョンチョン」| ① sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② something small hopping repeatedly/touching lightly and repeatedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ punctuation marks such as the dakuten ④ Chonchon/South American mythical bird
「はたはた・ハタハタ」| ① flutter/flap/sound of something light moving in the wind (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばっと」| ① suddenly/in a flash/rapidly/nimbly/alertly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱたぱた・パタパタ」| ① flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.)/fluttering/whack-whack (e.g. beating dust out of a rug)/whap-whap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② pitter-patter (of footsteps) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ quickly (making progress)/in quick succession (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パタン・ぱたん」| ① with a snap/with a bang/with a plonk/with a click (👉 ぱたり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly/all of a sudden (👉 ぱたり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶすっと・ブスッと・ブスっと」| ① with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft)/with a thrust/with a stab (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sullenly/sulkily/glumly/sourly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺたぺた」| ① sound of a flat surface repeatedly making contact with something (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② applying a seal or stamp again and again/pasting (paper) all over (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ daubing/smearing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺちゃぺちゃ」| ① chatter/prattle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lapping (up)/slurping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sound of juicy food being bitten into (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽうっと」| ① shrill whistling sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② reddening or brightening slightly ③ rush of blood to the head
「こくんこくん・コクンコクン」| ① glugging/drinking deeply (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nodding deeply
「こくん・コクン」| ① nod deeply (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② glugging/drinking deeply
「ぐじぐじ」| ① mumblingly/grumblingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tardily/slowly
「モーモー・もーもー・もうもう・モウモウ」| ① moo (sound of a cow) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② moo-cow/moo-moo (✋ children's language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドボドボ」| ① with glugging (e.g. of liquid being poured, running down) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずきんずきん」| ① throbbing (pain)/pounding/stinging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずきん・ズキン」| ① throbbing (pain)/pounding (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ニヤリ・にやり」| ① meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.)/suggestively/broadly/sneeringly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くすん・ぐすん」| ① sniff/sniffle/snuffle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「クニャクニャ・くにゃくにゃ」| ① (the impression of being) soft and flexible (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くりくり」| ① big and round (eyes, shaven head, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のっぺり」| ① featureless (face)/expressionless/flat/blank/smooth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flat (terrain)/smooth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐう」| ① rock (in rock, paper, scissors game) (👉 じゃん拳;グー,2) ② ungh/sound made through constricted throat (👉 ぐうの音も出ない) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ ungh/sound made in suffering or under adversity (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「コテコテ・ゴテゴテ・こてこて・ごてごて」| ① over the top (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② thickly/heavily/richly (👉 こってり,1)
「どろり」| ① thick (of a liquid)/muddy/gooey (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さらり」| ① sleek/smooth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② thin (of a liquid) ③ without hesitation or delay
「くちゃくちゃ・クチャクチャ」| ① (eating) noisily/(chewing) with an open mouth/while smacking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crumpled/creased (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ messy/disorderly/untidy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しっぽり」| ① in a drenched manner/moistly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② affectionately/fondly/tenderly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ slowly/at ease/restful (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どん・ドン」| ① bang/bam/boom/thud/thump/crash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō)/noon gun/noonday gun (👉 午砲) ③ precisely/exactly/plumb/totally/very (👉 ど,1) ④ Mr./Mrs./Miss/Ms./-san (👉 殿,どの) (✋ honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language; familiar language)
「がらっと」| ① to burst open/to open suddenly (of a door) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to change completely/to do a 180
「モワァ〜ン・モワァーン」| ① whoosh/swish (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きらっと・キラッと・キラっと」| ① with a single flash of light/glitteringly/sparklingly/twinklingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のそり」| ① moving slowly (and dull-wittedly) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きらり」| ① with a momentary flash of light (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ざっくり」| ① roughly/approximately/loosely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cutting or breaking apart with vigour (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ deeply (cut or split) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ sound of treading on pebbles (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドカン・どかん」| ① with a bang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガチッと・がちっと」| ① with a clashing or clanging sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちんまり」| ① snugly/cosily/compactly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐうっと」| ① heartily (drinking) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐしゃっと・くしゃっと」| ① crushed flat/squashed to a pulp/squished/crumpled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐっしょり」| ① soaking (wet)/wringing/dripping/drenched (👉 びっしょり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごっくん」| ① gulp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② semen-swallowing (✋ vulgar expression or word)
「ぞろり」| ① all together in a line/all together in a lump (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② dressed sloppily/overdressed for the occasion
「きりっと」| ① having a crisp appearance/stiffly/tensely/smartly (e.g. dressed)/neatly (👉 きりり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きりり」| ① stiff and slackless/tense without any looseness (👉 きりっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cling tightly/pulled or stretched as far as possible ③ creaking of a door or oar
「ぎゅう」| ① squeezing something tightly/sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② criticizing someone severely/sound made by someone being criticized ③ hug (✋ colloquialism)
「きゅん・キュン」| ① choked up (with emotion)/heart-wringing/momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴクリ・ごくり・ごっくり・ゴックリ」| ① gulpingly/in one gulp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごくごく・ゴクゴク」| ① in big gulps (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しばしば・シバシバ・しぱしぱ・シパシパ」| ① (blinking) repeatedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ともすると」| ① apt to (do)/liable to/prone to (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がたっと」| ① with a clunk/with a clank (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② the sound of a sudden decrease (in profits, vigor, etc.)
「ポーン・ぽーん」| ① pawn (chess piece) ② boing/sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring)/plonk (e.g. sound of hitting a tennis ball)/crack (e.g. sound of ice cracking underfoot) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ flipping through the air/tossing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポチッ・ぽちっ・ポチっ」| ① sound of a button or switch being pressed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ねっとり」| ① viscously/stickily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グーグー・ぐーぐー」| ① snoring (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② growling (low rumbling sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ミシミシ・みしみし」| ① creaking/groaning (e.g. under physical stress) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グースカ・ぐーすか・ぐうすか」| ① soundly (of sleeping)/(sleeping) like a log (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カスカス・かすかす」| ① dry/dried out/juiceless (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② barely/just (👉 かつかつ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「いけしゃあしゃあ・いけしゃあしゃ」| ① shamelessly/brazenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プチッ・プチっ」| ① with a snap/with a click (beep) (👉 ポチっ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② shortly/briefly/small (👉 プチ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガビーン・がびーん」| ① oh no! (✋ manga slang; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピカッと・ぴかっと」| ① with a flash/brightly/dazzlingly/sparklingly/brilliantly (shining) (👉 ぴかり;ぴかぴか,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼんぼん・ボンボン」| ① fiercely (e.g. of a fire burning) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② bong-bong (of clock ringing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ with repeated bangs (e.g. of fire cracker) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ striking clock (👉 ぼんぼん時計) (✋ abbreviation; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ green young man from a well-to-do family (🗣 Kansai-ben)
「ガーン・があん・がーん」| ① boom/bang/wham (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② Oh my God!/What a shock! (✋ manga slang; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビクッと・びくっと・びくりと」| ① with a start/with a jump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼくぼく」| ① (of soil, etc.) soft, dry and crumbly (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of quiet walking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゃーにゃー・ニャーニャー・にゃあにゃあ・ニャアニャア」| ① meow/miaow (👉 にゃあ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cat/kitty/pussy cat (✋ children's language)
「やいやい・ヤイヤイ」| ① pressingly/demandingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② hey! hey!/oi!
「ガクリ・ガクッ・カクン」| ① (sound effect for) collapsing/losing strength/slumping/losing balance (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しれっと・シレッと」| ① nonchalantly/calmly/as if nothing happened (👉 けろっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヘロヘロ・へろへろ」| ① completely exhausted/dog-tired/dreadfully weary/terribly frustrated/limp/weak/flimsy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガシッと・がしっと」| ① firmly/solidly/heartily (👉 がっしり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガクンガクン」| ① jerkingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「けろっと」| ① completely/entirely (👉 けろり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nonchalantly/as if nothing happened (👉 けろり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギクッと・ぎくっと・ギクっと」| ① (with a) start/fright/alarm (👉 ぎくり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② creaking/cracking/snapping/popping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じっとり」| ① damp/moist (negative nuance) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボソリ・ぼそり・ポソリ・ぽそり」| ① whispering/murmuring/subdued (👉 ぼそっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひょいひょい・ヒョイヒョイ」| ① lightly/nimbly/with agility (👉 ひょいと,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② casually/readily/regularly/in succession (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シュンシュン」| ① whistling (e.g. of a kettle) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゃんじゃん」| ① clanging (of a bell)/jangling/ding-dong (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② continuously/incessantly/one after another/rapidly/plentifully/freely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
唖々・唖唖「ああ」| ① caw (of a crow, etc.) (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プッツン・ぷっつん」| ① going crazy/losing one's temper/snapping (✋ slang; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of a stretched string snapping (👉 ぷつん,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カーンカーン」| ① clanging/dong dong (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「おんおん」| ① bawling/crying (✋ obscure term; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちらりほらり」| ① here and there/in twos and threes/sporadically/sparsely (👉 ちらほら,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② now and then/from time to time/occasionally (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ lightly fluttering (of falling petals, leaves, etc.)/swirling (in the wind) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「スカスカ・すかすか」| ① hollow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sharply/cleanly (of cutting) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ smoothly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぞくっと」| ① tremblingly/having the chills (through fear, cold, anticipation, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グキグキ・ぐきぐき」| ① throbbing pain (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② jerkily/awkwardly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グチョグチョ・ぐしょぐしょ・グショグショ・ぐちょぐちょ」| ① sopping/soaking (👉 ぐしょ濡れ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ツンと・つんと」| ① standoffishly/primly/prickly/irritably/aloofly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② pungent (smell)/acrid/sharp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ pointed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽてぽて・ポテポテ」| ① plump/fleshy/chubby (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (walking) slowly/with soft-footed steps (of toddlers, small animals, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むっくり・むくり」| ① abruptly (rising) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slowly (rising) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ plump/rotund (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「なんたらかんたら」| ① something or other/what-do-you-call-it/what-do-you-call-them (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② blah blah blah/yada yada yada (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱりっと」| ① dashing/classy/posh/new/modern (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crisp/crisply/crunchy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「まじまじ」| ① staringly/fixedly/unblinkingly (👉 まじまじと見る) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギラリ・ぎらり・ギョロリ・ぎょろり・ギロリ・ぎろり・ギロッ・ぎろっ」| ① staring (e.g. eyes)/goggling/glaring (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐにゃっと・くにゃっと」| ① flabbily/softly/limply/easily (bend)/effortlessly/flexibly/mushily (👉 ぐにゃり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽっちゃり・ポッチャリ」| ① to be plump/to be chubby (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゅるり」| ① sound effect for slurping back up excess saliva (e.g. as stimulated by desire for food) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺったん」| ① flattening (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「イガイガ・いがいが・イカイカ・いかいか」| ① bur (of a chestnut, etc.)/burr (👉 毬,いが) ② irritating (e.g. one's throat)/thorny/bristling ③ crying of a baby (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴトゴト・ごとごと」| ① clop clop/rumble rumble (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of something being boiled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うっぷ」| ① burp/belch (👉 げっぷ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギトギト・ぎとぎと・ギタギタ・ぎたぎた」| ① oily/greasy/sticky (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「あーん・ああん・アーン」| ① opening (one's mouth) wide/saying "aah" (👉 アーンして) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crying loudly/wailing/bawling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バーン」| ① barn ② road ③ bang/bam/wham (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドブン・ドボン・どぶん・どぼん・どんぶり」| ① plop/splash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょこまか」| ① restlessly/in continuous motion (👉 ちょこちょこ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばっさり・バッサリ」| ① (cutting) with a single stroke/lopping off (branches, etc.)/(cutting hair) short (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② drastically (slash a budget, etc.)/resolutely/ruthlessly (discard, etc.)/completely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にょっきり」| ① sticking out prominently (usu. something long and thin)/rising up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「なみなみ・ナミナミ」| ① (filled) to the brim (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こつんと」| ① with a bump/with a clunk (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にたり」| ① smirkingly/smugly/broadly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もちもち」| ① springy (texture)/doughy/elastic (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビシャビシャ・びしゃびしゃ」| ① soaked/drenched/sopping/slushy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② splashing/sloshing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷちぷち・プチプチ」| ① sound of bubbles (or other small objects) being popped (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lumpy sensation (e.g. of food) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ little bits/small grains ④ bubble wrap (trademark of Kawakami Sangyo Co.) (👉 気泡緩衝材)
「ぼたり・ぼったり」| ① falling with a splat/oozing/dripping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃっきり」| ① crisp/straight (back)/unwavering attitude/brisk (👉 しゃきっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃきっと・シャキッと」| ① crisp/crunchy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② refreshing/straight/firm/sharp/smart and stylish (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「よたよた」| ① unsteadily (walking)/waddling/staggeringly/totteringly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バクバク・ばくばく」| ① thumping (heart)/banging/pounding/racing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐちぐち・グチグチ」| ① mumbling/muttering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② complaining (continuously) about something (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムスっと」| ① sullenly/discontentedly/with hurt feelings (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かさこそ・カサコソ」| ① rustlingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のたりのたり」| ① slowly (of undulating waves)/gently (swelling, rolling, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こりこり」| ① crisp (like a pickle)/crunchy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② firm (musculature) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ stiff (shoulders, neck, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺたん」| ① sound of something making firm contact with a flat surface (👉 ぺたぺた,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずどん」| ① thud/bang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さやさや」| ① soft, light rustling (e.g. leaves in the wind) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごぼっ」| ① gurgling down/being sucked into/caving in suddenly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さっくり・サックリ」| ① lightly/gently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (breaking apart) easily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃぷちゃぷ・チャプチャプ」| ① splish-splash/glug-glug (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほいほい・ホイホイ」| ① recklessly/thoughtlessly/carelessly/readily/blithely/willingly/easily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② pamperingly/indulgently/carefully (not angering) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ shoo! ④ heave-ho ⑤ hallo/hello ⑥ Hui (people) (👉 回族) ⑦ novice/beginner (✋ archaism)
「バリン」| ① valine ② (with a) whoomp/smash/crunch (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゲソゲソ・げそげそ」| ① looking very thin (👉 げっそり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; obscure term)
「すかり・すがり」| ① net for caught fish ② net-like tassel of Buddhist prayer beads ③ Vespula flaviceps (species of yellowjacket) (👉 黒雀蜂) (🗣 Touhoku-ben) ④ ant (👉 蟻) (🗣 Kyuushuu-ben) ⑤ easily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きしり」| ① creak/squeak (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きちんきちん」| ① correctly/properly/accurately (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎくぎく」| ① jerkily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギチギチ・ぎちぎち」| ① creakily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② close (i.e. with no room to spare) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎろぎろ・ギロギロ」| ① glaringly (staring) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐじゃぐじゃ」| ① soggy/soaking/drenched (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② incessantly (complaining) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごしゃごしゃ」| ① jumbled/disarrayed/messy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴリゴリ・ごりごり」| ① with a scraping sound/with a grating sound/with a scratching sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with force/hard/vigorously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ forcibly (carry out)/forcefully/in a pushy manner (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ hard (e.g. food)/stiff (e.g. clothing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ inflexible/uncompromising/dyed-in-the-wool (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑥ hardcore/serious/genuine/bona fide/true/real (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; colloquialism)
「じゃかすか」| ① with gusto (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ジャラジャラ・じゃらじゃら」| ① jingling/jangling/clinking/chinking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lasciviously/coquettishly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゃんじゃか」| ① noisily (playing a musical instrument) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② doing something on and on (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっすっ・スッスッ」| ① smoothly/frictionlessly/easily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そろり」| ① slowly and quietly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② smoothly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょっきり」| ① exactly/just (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② snip
「つっと・つうと・つうっと・ツーッと」| ① quickly/smoothly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「てらてら」| ① gleamingly/shinily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のっそり」| ① sluggishly/slowly/ploddingly/lumbering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② stolidly (standing)/impassively (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のめのめ」| ① shamelessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「はらり」| ① gently (falling) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴよぴよ・ピヨピヨ・ひよひよ」| ① cheep cheep/tweet tweet (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② gently (moving) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びたびた」| ① drenched/soaked (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② romantically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴちっと」| ① tightly/snugly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴっちり」| ① tightly/snugly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「へこへこ」| ① pliantly/pliably (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② subserviently/ingratiatingly/servilely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼそっと・ボソッと・ボソっと・ぼさっと・ボサッと・ボサっと」| ① absent-mindedly/vacantly/idly/lazily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in a whisper (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽちぽち」| ① spattering/splotching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② step-by-step/little-by-little (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ soon (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ dots ⑤ ditto mark
「ぽっちり」| ① very slightly/a little (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムカッと・ムカっと・むかっと」| ① feeling sick (suddenly)/feeling queasy/feeling nauseated (👉 ムカムカ,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② being angry (suddenly)/being offended/being disgusted (👉 ムカムカ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「めためた」| ① beyond repair (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もさっと」| ① absentmindedly/vacantly/dully (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be unattractive/to be unsophisticated/to be unrefined/to be uncouth (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もっそり」| ① slowly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② unrefined (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もっさり」| ① unfashionable/lacking style (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② dim-witted/slow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムギュウ」| ① squeezing/hug/hugging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ベリベリ」| ① beriberi (👉 脚気,かっけ) ② tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パシャ」| ① pasha/honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt ② click/sound of a camera shutter (👉 パシャッと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ブーン・ぶーん・ぶうん」| ① whirr/hum/buzz (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② whoosh/woosh/whiz (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボカッ・ボカン」| ① bop/pow/bonk/thump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グビグビ・ぐびぐび・グビリグビリ・ぐびりぐびり」| ① in loud gulps (esp. of alcohol) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カランカラン・からんからん」| ① clank clank (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こん」| ① with a bump/with a clunk (👉 こつんと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② yelp (e.g. of a fox)/bark/howl (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「けたけた」| ① laughing foolishly/cackling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごんごん」| ① bang/clang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びしり」| ① with a snap/(break) cleanly (👉 びしっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (rejecting) sternly/flatly ③ smartly/(dressing up) well
「ピクピク・ぴくぴく」| ① twitching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どさり」| ① with a thud (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽとり」| ① with a "plop" (of tears, drop of water, etc.) (👉 ぽとりと落ちる) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドシンドシン・どしんどしん」| ① walking (with heavy steps)/tramping/lumbering/clumping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シューシュー」| ① hiss/fizz/woosh/swish/whiz (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バンバン・ばんばん」| ① with a bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② at a mad pace (spend money, work)/with great vigor
「ブスブス・プスプス・ぷすぷす・ぶすぶす」| ① sputtering/smoldering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② repeated thrusting into something (sword, needle, etc.)/pricking repeatedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ mutterings of discontent/faint sounds of complaint (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐにゃり・くにゃり」| ① flabbily/softly/limply/easily (bend)/effortlessly/flexibly/mushily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょん・チョン」| ① clap (sound of wooden clappers) (👉 ちょんちょん,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chop vigorously (👉 ちょん切る,1) ③ slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting) (👉 ちょんちょん,2) ④ the end/originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers (👉 ちょんになる) ⑤ dot (esp. typographical) (👉 ちょんちょん,3)
「ばきっと」| ① snapping (e.g. branch) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ねとねと」| ① stickily/gooily/syrupily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴしり」| ① with a click/with a snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎこぎこ」| ① squeak squeak/squeaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガクガクブルブル」| ① chattering (of teeth) and trembling (with fear) (👉 ガクガク,1;ブルブル) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バキバキ・ばきばき」| ① with a crack (e.g. branches, knuckles) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「キャン」| ① yelp (👉 キャンキャン) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sales campaign (👉 キャンペーン,1) (✋ abbreviation) ③ kiang (Equus hemionus kiang)/kyang
「かしゃかしゃ」| ① click-clack/clickety-click/clicking sound/clattering sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゲーゲー・げえげえ・げーげー」| ① (with a) vomiting sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パチン・ぱちん」| ① with a click/with a snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② ornamental clip (hair, obi, etc.) (✋ abbreviation)
「ゴツンゴツン・ごつんごつん」| ① thumping/banging (👉 ゴツン) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばちん・バチン」| ① (with a) slap/smack/whack/sound of a sharp blow with something flat (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② wham/sound of striking with something solid (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ zap/crack/sound of thunder (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドスンドスン・どすんどすん」| ① thud thud (esp. footsteps)/clump clump (👉 どしんどしん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どすっと」| ① thump/thud/bump/clunk (👉 どすん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひゅーっ・ひゅー」| ① (with a) whizzing sound/sound of something whizzing by (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シコシコ」| ① chewy/springy/al dente (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slowly but steadily ③ masturbation/fap fap
習習・習々「しゅうしゅう」| ① gentle breeze (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷっつり・ぶっつり・ふっつり・ぷつん・ふつり・ぷつり」| ① breaking off/snapping off (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly stopping (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギンギン」| ① ecstatic/ecstatically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② splitting headache
「とことこ」| ① briskly with small steps/trotting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずらずら」| ① in succession/in an endless stream/continuing without pause or interruption (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くっくっと・クックッと」| ① with a chuckle/with a giggle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かぴかぴ・カピカピ」| ① crusty/flaky/dried out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; colloquialism)
「ダボダボ・だぼだぼ」| ① loose (of clothing)/loose-fitting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② plenty (of pouring a liquid) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sloshing about (e.g. of water in one's stomach) (👉 だぶだぶ,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっぱ」| ① cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.)/in a single blow (👉 すっぱり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふっくり」| ① fully/luxuriantly/fluffy/plump/soft and full/corpulent (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちろちろ」| ① flicker (light)/waver (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② trickle (water) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ glance at (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「トホホ・とほほ・トホホホ」| ① boo-hoo/boo-hoo-hoo (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばっさばっさ」| ① rapidly/flapping wings (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
噁噁「あくあく」| ① chirp/tweet/caw (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「ぺらっと」| ① flipping (e.g. a page)/peeling off (👉 ぺらぺら,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fluently (👉 ぺらぺら,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷるぷる・プルプル」| ① trembling/shivering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② jiggling/wobbling/bouncing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のしのし・のっしのっし」| ① walking heavily/lumbering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にょきりにょきり」| ① feelings/memories/imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other (👉 にょきにょき) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ざぶりざぶり」| ① sound of living, moving water (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じとじと」| ① damp/wet/soaked/humid/clammy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺたり・べたり」| ① slapping on (stamp, sticker) (👉 べたっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② flopping down (👉 べたっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「つるり・つるん」| ① smoothly/with a slipping or sliding motion (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「めりめり」| ① splintering or cracking (e.g. in a strong wind) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「タプタプ・たぷたぷ」| ① flabby (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「たぶたぶ」| ① brimming/full to the point of overflowing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② loose/baggy (👉 ゆったり,2;ぶかぶか,1;だぶだぶ,1)
「フッ」| ① hah (derisively)/pooh ② pfft (of something disappearing)/poof (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ huff/puff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばちゃん・バチャン」| ① with a splash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴょこぴょこ」| ① up and down/lightly/nimbly/moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② casually/(strolling about) without a care (👉 ひょいひょい,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どっぴゅ」| ① sound of something being powerfully ejected (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ことん」| ① clunk/thump (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴゅう・ぴゅん・ピュウッ・ピュー」| ① whiz (e.g. projectile through air)/swoosh/whoosh/whistling sound (👉 ぴゅうぴゅう) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くるっと」| ① turning around/spinning around/curling up (👉 くるり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② round and charming (e.g. eyes) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱらり」| ① sprinkling/dropping in small light bits (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どうと・どうど」| ① crash/smash/bang/sound of a large, heavy object falling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピチャリ」| ① sound of a small wave hitting the shore/sound of a whip/sound of a slap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴちゃん」| ① splash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slam/slap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「トロリ・とろり」| ① thick/viscous (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sleepy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごとり」| ① thump/clang/clank (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そぼそぼ」| ① drizzling (rain) (👉 しょぼしょぼ,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「デクデク・でくでく」| ① plump/fat (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シュッシュッ・しゅっしゅっ」| ① choo-choo/chug-chug/chuff-chuff/hiss-hiss (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② brush-brush/scrub-scrub (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どしり・ドシリ」| ① sound of a heavy object falling (👉 どしん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どかり」| ① falling heavily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボーボー・ボウボウ・ぼうぼう・ぼーぼー」| ① vigorously (burning)/furiously/fiercely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じんじん」| ① tingling sensation (e.g. in a leg)/feeling numb/painful tingle/throbbing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② noisily/ears ringing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばりッと」| ① sound of an object breaking loudly/ripping sound/tearing sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② being stylish (👉 ぱりっと,1)
「ぽちゃり」| ① splash/splosh (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むっと・ムッと・むーっと・むうっと」| ① to be sullen/to be offended/to be huffy/to be petulant/to be indignant (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to be stuffy/to be stifling/to be muggy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ slowly (exhaling smoke) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐらり」| ① shaking violently (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポッと・ぽっと」| ① slightly (blushing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (getting bright, flaring up, flashing on, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ distractedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶるん・ぶるり」| ① with a vroom/with a sudden shaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どんぶりこ・どんぶらこ」| ① plop/splash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② tumbling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「チュンチュン・チュン・ちゅんちゅん・ちゅん」| ① chirp/cheep (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎいとん」| ① squeaking or creaking (followed by a thump) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むくむく」| ① rising up/towering/billowing (e.g. clouds of smoke) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② plump/chubby/fat (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ shaggy/hairy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほんわか・ホンワカ」| ① warm/snug/cozy/cosy/comfortable/pleasant/soft/fluffy/gentle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱったり」| ① unexpectedly/suddenly/abruptly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶらりぶらり」| ① dangling heavily/swaying to and fro/swinging (👉 ぶらぶら,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パカパカ・ぱかぱか」| ① clip-clop/clippety-clop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② clamshell cellphone/flip cellphone (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とくとく・トクトク」| ① glug-glug (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とん」| ① tap/knock/bonk (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ザブン・ざぶん・ザブリ・ざぶり・ザンブ・ざんぶ・ザンブリ・ざんぶり」| ① splash/plop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パシャッと・バシャッと・ぱしゃっと・ばしゃっと」| ① with a splash/with a splosh (👉 バシャバシャ,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② with a click (of a camera shutter)/with a snap (👉 バシャバシャ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じわっと」| ① slowly but steadily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴりり」| ① tingling/stinging/pungently (👉 ぴりっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷるんぷるん・プルンプルン」| ① shaking like a jelly/jellylike (👉 ぷるん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばしっと」| ① whack/smack (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しねしね・しなしな・シナシナ・シネシネ」| ① soft and elastic/flexible/pliant (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「のそりのそり」| ① slowly/stolidly/heavily/lumpingly (👉 のそのそ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷるん・プルン」| ① shaking like a jelly/jellylike (👉 ぷるんぷるん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こちょこちょ・コチョコチョ」| ① coochy-coo/hitchy-koo/kitchy-koo (tickling sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごそり」| ① rustling sound/rummaging sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がさり」| ① rustling sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② search (esp. a home search by the police) (👉 がさる) (✋ obscure term; slang)
「すぽっと・スポッと」| ① snugly (into hole, container, etc.)/tightly (fitting, covering)/firmly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement)/with a plop/(fall) straight (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷつぷつ」| ① bumpy (e.g. of a rash)/knobbly/pimply (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② easily cut (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゆくと」| ① slowly/unhurriedly/without haste/leisurely/at one's leisure (👉 ゆっくり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ぽつねんと」| ① solitarily/in a lonely fashion/all alone/by oneself (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パチ」| ① snapping (e.g. book shut)/clapping/crackling/sputtering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② pachinko (👉 パチンコ,1) (✋ abbreviation; slang)
「ボキボキ・ポキポキ・ぽきぽき・ぼきぼき」| ① cracking sound (e.g. cracking one's knuckles)/crunching sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すってんころり・すってんころりん」| ① falling plump/falling down flat (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポロン・ポロロン・ポロンポロン・ぽろろん」| ① strumming/thrumming/plunking/plonking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しっちゃかめっちゃか・ひっちゃかめっちゃか・ヒッチャカメッチャカ・シッチャカメッチャカ」| ① jumbled up/disordered/messy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かたこと・カタコト」| ① click-clack/clip-clop/clatter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぺっと」| ① ptoo (i.e. spitting sound)/ptew/ptooey (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばしばし」| ① violently/without holding anything back (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② firmly/resolutely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちくりちくり」| ① prickling/stinging/biting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちくっと・ちくと」| ① pricking/stinging/tingling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピンと・ぴんと」| ① tensely/tightly/tautly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② erectly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ intuitively/instinctively/immediately (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ with a burst/with a crack (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パシャリ・ぱしゃり」| ① sound of a camera shutter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of water splashing (👉 パシャン) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビシバシ・びしばし」| ① without holding anything back/mercilessly/relentlessly/energetically/vigorously (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どたんばたん・ドタンバタン」| ① banging around (e.g. in a fight) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「けちょんけちょん」| ① thorough (criticism, defeat, etc.)/utter/serious (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がじがじ・ガジガジ」| ① biting/gnawing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② in constant pain/irritated (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どばどば・ドバドバ」| ① pouring out in large amounts/flowing out gushingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶるっと」| ① shiveringly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポトン・ぽとん・ポトっ・ポトッ・ぽとっ・ポテン・ぽてん」| ① plop/plonk/plunk/flop (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ブルルン・ぶるるん」| ① va-va-vroom (esp. fast cars or bikes, sexy women or men)/va-voom/vrrrm (👉 ぶるん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② sound of animal shaking its fur to dry off after getting wet (esp. dogs) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐしぐし」| ① grumbling/complaining/muttering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② crumpling (e.g. paper) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「こそっと」| ① stealthily/secretly (👉 こっそり;こそこそ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピコピコ・ぴこぴこ」| ① blip blop (i.e. video game sounds) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「だくだく」| ① gushing out (e.g. sweat or blood)/flowing profusely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② thump-thump/bang-bang/pit-a-pat/pitapat/pitter-patter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sound of hoofbeats (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷくぷく」| ① bubblingly/foamingly/sinking or rising while giving off bubbles (👉 ぶくぶく,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cute and chubby/pudgy/puffed up (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プチュッ」| ① kissing loudly/smooching (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② squirting/gushing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビュンビュン・びゅんびゅん」| ① swishing through the air/whirling quickly/moving quickly (👉 ビュッ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビュッ・びゅっ・ビュン・びゅん」| ① zip/ping/zing/zoom/whoosh (👉 ビュンビュン) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「もやくや」| ① trouble/bother/confusion (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② depression/gloom/feeling sad (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「てへぺろ・テヘペロ」| ① laughing embarrassedly and sticking out one's tongue (👉 てへへ;ぺろりと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; slang)
「ひょろっと」| ① tall and thin/long and thin/lanky/spindly/gangly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょろっと」| ① quickly/briefly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rashly/carelessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ (flowing) in trickles (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムクと・むくと・むくっと・ムクッと・ムクっと・むっくと」| ① abruptly (rising) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② slowly (rising) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どんと」| ① powerfully/vigorously/with all one's strength (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② lots of/heaps of/plenty (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽんぽこ」| ① sounding of a drum or hand drum/sound of drums (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② full (stomach)/bursting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ふんふん・フンフン」| ① uh-huh ② sniff-sniff (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わさわさ・ワサワサ」| ① restless/fidgety/lively/busy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽくぽく」| ① rhythmically (beating, e.g. gong) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② clip-clopping (e.g. horse) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ crumbly (👉 ほくほく,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ ambling/strolling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ dozing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビチビチ・びちびち」| ① sound of the expulsion of soft matter mixed with water/diarrhea, etc. sounds/watery (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しらっと」| ① dully/dispassionately/apathetically/in a subdued manner (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ずぼり」| ① vigorously/really getting stuck into (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きょろり」| ① with bright almond eyes/eyes wide open (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nonchalantly (👉 けろり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きょろん」| ① with bright almond eyes/eyes wide open (👉 きょろり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nonchalantly (👉 きょろり,2;けろり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プンスカ」| ① sound expressing anger (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; slang)
「ブー・ブーッ」| ① beep/honk (car horn)/buzz (buzzer)/boo (wrong answer, like buzzer on quiz shows) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むむ」| ① hum/hmm (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② hm hm (light chuckle with mouth closed) (👉 ふふ) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ uh-huh (👉 うんうん,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ mm/hmm (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ well (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷくっと」| ① puffed up (👉 ぷくぷく,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドドーン・どどーん」| ① boom/kaboom (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごろん」| ① flopping (e.g. on a bed)/scattering (e.g. limbs horizontally) (👉 ごろごろ,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ペッペッ・ぺっぺっ」| ① spitting (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポロっと・ぽろっと」| ① dropping (of tears, dew, etc.) (👉 ぽろり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② falling off/dropping off/slipping (e.g. from one's hands) (👉 ぽろり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ inadvertently (coming to the surface)/letting out (e.g. a secret) (👉 ぽろり,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わしわし」| ① many people talking noisily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② chowing down/scarfing down (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ roughly (of actions) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「へたへた」| ① falling down/lacking the energy to stand/collapsing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わちゃわちゃ」| ① chattering/chit-chat/(ladies) prattle (👉 ぺちゃくちゃ) (🗣 Osaka-ben) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ろれろれ・ロレロレ」| ① slurring/stuttering (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; rare)
「ふにゃり・ふにゃっ」| ① limply (👉 ふにゃふにゃ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グサッと・ぐさっと」| ① deeply (stab, thrust, etc.)/hard (👉 ぐさりと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きゃっ・キャー・ぎゃあ・キャッ・きゃあ・ギャー・ぎゃっ・ギャッ」| ① yikes!/eek!/ouch!/blech ② ook/eek (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ customer (✋ slang)
「ちゃっと」| ① swiftly/rapidly/promptly/nimbly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism) ② a little/somewhat (👉 ちょっと,1) (✋ archaism)
「ぷくり」| ① partly puffed up (👉 ぷくっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② bubblingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にやっ・ニヤッ」| ① smirkingly/broadly (grinning) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くわっと・クワッと」| ① opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽきり・ぽきん・ぼきり・ぼきん」| ① snappingly/with a snap (👉 ポキッと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すぽん・スポン・ずぼん」| ① snugly (into hole, container, etc.)/tightly (fitting, covering)/firmly (👉 すぽっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement)/with a plop/(fall) straight (👉 すぽっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「さらっと」| ① smoothly/swimmingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② forthrightly/without hesitation (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピラピラ・ぴらぴら」| ① fluttering (cloth, paper, etc.)/waving/small fluttering object (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ペッ」| ① phooey (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゃん・ニャン・にゃーん・ニャーン・にゃあん」| ① meow/miaow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cat (✋ children's language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぶらんぶらん・ブランブラン」| ① dangling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バタンキュー・ばたんきゅー・ばたんきゅう」| ① falling asleep immediately/going out like a light (👉 バタン) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; colloquialism)
「きゅう」| ① (rubbing, twisting) hard/with a squeal/with a creak (👉 きゅっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (drinking) in one sweep (👉 きゅっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃっちゃと・ちゃっちゃっと・ちゃちゃっと・ちゃちゃと」| ① lickety-split/quickly (👉 ちゃっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パシャン・ぱしゃん」| ① splash/sploosh (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「いひひ・イヒヒ」| ① hee-hee/tee-hee (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びいびい」| ① noisily/bleatingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「かたっと」| ① clattering/(with a) clunk (👉 かたり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃんちゃんばらばら」| ① clashing of swords (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fight/brawl/scuffle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がしゃがしゃ・ガシャガシャ」| ① (pieces of metal, etc. hitting each other) noisily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cluttered/disordered/messy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くいくい」| ① giving two or three light tugs (or pushes) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② worrying about/moping/brooding over/fretting (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly angry/feeling a surge of anger (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バシャバシャ・パシャパシャ・バチャバチャ・パチャパチャ・ばしゃばしゃ・ぱしゃぱしゃ・ばちゃばちゃ・ぱちゃぱちゃ」| ① splish-splash/with a splash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② click-click (of a camera shutter)/with a click/with a snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガビガビ・がびがび」| ① dried stiff (esp. of something sticky) (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「クスッと・くすっと・くすりと」| ① slipping out (a chuckle, giggle)/unintentionally (letting out a quiet laugh) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴんしゃん・ピンシャン・びんしゃん」| ① vigorous for one's age/active despite one's years/hale and hearty/full of beans (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じたじた」| ① cowering/recoiling/overwhelmed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「モフモフ・もふもふ」| ① soft to the touch (e.g. fur, feathers)/fluffy (👉 フワフワ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to stroke (something fluffy)/to rub/to pat (✋ Internet slang)
「しんなり」| ① soft/supple/pliant (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すぱっと」| ① completely (quitting, etc.)/entirely/thoroughly/totally/wholly/without hesitation (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.)/in a single blow (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごほごほ・ゴホゴホ」| ① coughing/hacking cough (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビュイーン」| ① zooming/whizzing/whistling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シャキーン」| ① clink/clank/clang (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どくん・ドクン・どっくん・ドックン」| ① heavy heartbeat/thumping/pounding (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「げほげほ・ゲホゲホ」| ① (wet) cough/(sound of) coughing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱらっと・パラッと」| ① scattering/sprinkling/shaking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐすぐす・グスグス」| ① snuffling/sniffling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ささっと」| ① quickly/briefly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ウッキー」| ① sound monkeys make (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽかり」| ① with a whack/with a thump (👉 ぽかん,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② openmouthed/with one's mouth wide-open/gaping/flabbergasted (👉 ぽかん,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ vacantly/blankly/absentmindedly (👉 ぽかん,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ gaping (of a hole, etc.)/suddenly opening (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほう・ほー・ホー」| ① oh/ho/exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc. ② hoo (owl call)/toot (sound of a flute) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きゃっきゃっ・キャッキャッ・きゃあきゃあ・キャーキャー・きゃっきゃ・キャッキャ」| ① chitter/chatter/giggle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② screeching/squealing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グルル」| ① grrr/growl (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ベロリ・べろり」| ① slurping/lapping (👉 べろべろ,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごくっ・ゴクッ」| ① gulp/gulping (👉 ごくり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「カシャリ」| ① click (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビリッと・びりっと」| ① ripping/tearing/vibrating/buzzing/like an electric shock (👉 びりびり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シュッと」| ① quickly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② swishing/whooshing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゴクン・ごくん」| ① with a gulp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギシギシアンアン」| ① sex/sexual intercourse/sound of bed creaking and woman sighing (👉 ぎしぎし) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; slang)
「ぶわぶわ」| ① spongy (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うっそり」| ① absentmindedly/vacantly/carelessly (👉 ぼんやり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じゅくじゅく」| ① oozily/seeping out/very damply/humidly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きなきな」| ① worriedly/fretting/moping/brooding (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷっくり」| ① puffed up/plump (👉 ぷくっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「とっくり」| ① thoroughly/carefully/deliberately/seriously/fully (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごそっと」| ① completely/entirely/wholly (👉 ごっそり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シュワシュワ・しゅわしゅわ」| ① bubbliness (of a carbonated drink)/sound of bubbles (of a carbonated drink)/fluffiness (of a cake, souffle, whipped cream) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「やいのやいの」| ① (pressing) hard/badgeringly/pesteringly/repeatedly/urgingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃなりしゃなり」| ① gracefully/affectedly/mincingly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バッチシ・ばっちし」| ① perfectly/right on the mark/spot on/bang on (👉 バッチリ,1) (🗣 Osaka-ben) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② enough/sufficiently/thoroughly/completely (👉 バッチリ,2) (🗣 Osaka-ben) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「みっしり」| ① strictly/severely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fully (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ closely/tightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ジョリジョリ・じょりじょり」| ① scrape-scrape/(with a) scraping sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぷかり・ぷかりぷかり」| ① puffing (e.g. cigarette smoke) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② bobbing (to the surface)/floating lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「スルッと・するっと」| ① smoothly/glidingly (👉 するり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぼっと」| ① with a roar (of flames)/with a whoosh/flaring up (👉 ぼうっと,3) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly blushing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ in a daze/absent-mindedly/vacantly/abstractedly/blankly/idly (👉 ぼうっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ dimly/hazily/faintly/vaguely/indistinctly (👉 ぼうっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ズボッと・ずぼっと」| ① something going right into or coming right out of a place where it fits snugly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゃんしゃん・シャンシャン」| ① jingling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (sound of) many people clapping together (👉 手締め) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ healthy/robust/active/hale and hearty/handling one's work well (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ concluding successfully (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ boiling (of water) (✋ archaism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゲタゲタ・げだげだ」| ① boisterously (laughing) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じっぱり」| ① a lot/many/much (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちんと」| ① calmly/coolly/primly (👉 チン,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ギタギタ・ギッタギタ・ギタンギタン・ギッタンギッタン」| ① severely beaten up/thoroughly defeated/completely destroyed (✋ slang; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② severely damaged/battered/beat-up/tattered/worn-out (✋ slang; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎったんばっこん・ぎったんばっこ」| ① seesaw/teeter-totter (👉 シーソー) (✋ children's language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちんちんかもかも・ちんちんかも」| ① flirting/fondling (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ハハハ・ははは」| ① ha ha ha (laughter) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ペリペリ・ぺりぺり」| ① light tearing or ripping sound/sound of tearing along perforated lines (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「プー・ぷー・ぷう・プーッ・ぷーっ・プーっ・ぷうっ」| ① toot (e.g. of trumpet) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② honk (e.g. of klaxon)/beep (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ farting sound (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ sound of something being inflated/puff/poof/phoo (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゅるしゅる」| ① rustling (as of silk)/slithering (sound)/whizzing/hissing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ニタァ・ニタァー」| ① with a grin/showing a devilish smile (👉 にたり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピロピロ」| ① party horn/party blower (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽっぽと・ポッポと」| ① puffing/chugging (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② steaming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ feeling hot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴかり・ピカり」| ① with a flash/brightly/dazzlingly/sparklingly/brilliantly (👉 ピカッと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グーン・ぐーん」| ① remarkably/noticeably (👉 ぐんと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「くぱぁ」| ① sound of vulva opening (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; manga slang)
「ごゆっくり」| ① slowly/unhurriedly/without haste/leisurely/at one's leisure (👉 ゆっくり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; polite (teineigo) language)
「ぱしぱし」| ① with a snap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パコパコ・ぱこぱこ」| ① sound of typing on a keyboard (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② having sex (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パーン・ぱーん・ぱあん」| ① Pan (Greek god) ② bang/boom/crack/sound of something exploding, bursting or cracking (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ズブズブ・ずぶずぶ」| ① (sink) deeply (into mud, snow, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (thrust) deeply (into a soft object) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ (involved) too deeply (in a matter, relationship, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ drenched/soaked/sodden (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ extremely (drunk) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; archaism)
「ぽっぽ・ポッポ」| ① puffing (e.g. steam train)/chugging/cooing (e.g. dove) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② steaming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ feeling hot (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ポイポイ・ぽいぽい」| ① tossing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シュッシュッポッポ・シュッシュッポッポッ・しゅっしゅっぽっぽ・しゅっしゅっぽっぽっ」| ① chuff-chuff (sound of a steam engine)/choo-choo/chug-chug/puff-puff (👉 汽車ポッポ,きしゃポッポ;ぽっぽ,1) (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴっしゃり・びっしゃり」| ① slapping together (incl. sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② fitting tightly (incl. sound) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぐしゃり」| ① squashed/crushed (👉 ぐしゃっと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボテボテ・ぼてぼて」| ① bulky (e.g. clothing)/ungainly/heavy/big (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② poorly hit/weak (🀄️ baseball term) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ボテッと・ぼてっと」| ① podgily/plumply/thickly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほろっと」| ① touching/moving (to tears) (👉 ほろり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビューン・びゅーん・びゅうん」| ① swish/whoosh/whizz (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ガブッと・がぶっと・ガプッと・がぷっと」| ① chomping/gulping/with a big bite (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「シャー・しゃー・しゃあ・しゃーっ・しゃあっ・シャーっ」| ① hiss (esp. cat)/sizzle/whoosh (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「キレキレ・キレッキレ・キレッキレッ」| ① agile (person's movements)/nimble/adroit/lively/brisk/skillful (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きー・きーっ・キー・キーッ・キーっ」| ① screech/squeak/squeal (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「けろけろ」| ① completely/entirely (👉 けろり,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nonchalantly/as if nothing happened (👉 けろり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴょん・ぴょーん」| ① (jumping) nimbly/light-footed (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② boing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ used at sentence end to affect cuteness (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; jocular, humorous term)
「くしゅくしゅ」| ① crumply (cloth, clothing, etc.)/ruffled (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② itchy and runny (nose) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すっくり」| ① straight/upright/erect (👉 すっくと) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② all/completely/thoroughly (👉 すっかり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほっかり」| ① pleasantly (warm) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② faintly/lightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ suddenly/unexpectedly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ④ accidentally/carelessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ⑤ (gaping) wide/(opening one's mouth) wide (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぎりぎり・ギリギリ」| ① grinding (sound)/grating/gnashing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② forcefully/strongly/with effort/(binding) tightly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃかちゃか」| ① restlessly/restively/agitated/fidgety (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「すぽり」| ① snugly (into hole, container, etc.)/tightly (fitting, covering)/firmly (👉 すぽっと,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement)/with a plop/(fall) straight (👉 すぽっと,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽっこり・ポッコリ」| ① bloated (esp. stomach)/bulging/sticking out (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② gaping wide/caving in (👉 ぽっかり,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「じわり」| ① gradually/slowly but steadily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
我利我利「がりがり・ガリガリ」| ① focusing on only one thing/obsessively/intensely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone) ② selfish/self-serving (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; word usually written using kana alone)
「ずっぷり」| ① completely submerged (e.g. in water) (👉 どっぷり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② completely soaked (e.g. with rain) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「どきん・どきり・ドキン・ドキリ」| ① being startled/getting a shock (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ジューッ・じゅーっ・じゅうっ」| ① fizzlingly/sputteringly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムカッ・ムカ・むかっ・むか」| ① being angry (suddenly) (👉 むかっと,2) (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がったり」| ① suddenly (esp. falling)/dramatically (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「そろっと・ソロっと・ソロッと」| ① soon/momentarily/before long/any time now (👉 そろそろ,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「たらり」| ① drop-by-drop/dripping/dribbling/in a trickle (👉 たらたら,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② loosely (hanging)/limply (👉 だらり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「きゅんきゅん・キュンキュン」| ① heart-wrenchingly/with a thrill in one's heart (✋ colloquialism; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「しゅー・シュー」| ① hiss/swish/whoosh/whiz/fizzle/sputter (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「むぎゅむぎゅ」| ① springy (texture)/doughy/elastic (👉 もちもち) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「タタタン」| ① tappity-tap/tap-tap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バチコーン」| ① thwap/smack (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ドロドロ・どろどろ」| ① rumbling (of thunder, drums, etc.)/booming (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うふん・うふーん」| ① tee-hee (✋ female term or language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② mmh (moan)/aah (✋ female term or language; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「グニュッと・ぐにゅっと」| ① gooily/with a squeeze/squishily/with a squish (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぬるっと・ヌルっと」| ① oilily/slimily/slipperily (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ひーこら・ヒーコラ・ひいこら」| ① straining (with physical exertion)/crying/groaning/huffing and puffing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちゃりん・チャリン」| ① with a clink (of metal)/with a chink (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばたっと・バタッと・バタっと」| ① with a thud/with a flop/with a plop/with a snap/with a crash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (stop, come to an end, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ビョンビョン・びょんびょん・ビヨンビヨン・びよんびよん」| ① bouncily/with a stretch/with a boing (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょろり」| ① quickly/briefly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② rashly/carelessly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ (flowing) in trickles (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「キコキコ・きこきこ」| ① with a squeaking sound (of metal) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゅるり・ニュルリ」| ① with a wriggle/in a slithering motion/in a squiggle/with a spurt (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パリン・ぱりん」| ① with a crack/with a smash (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「パタッと・パタっと・ぱたっと」| ① with a light thud/with a flop/with a (light) clap (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② suddenly (stop, come to an end, etc.) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「うそうそ・ウソウソ」| ① uneasily/restlessly/erratically (👉 うろうろ,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ワタワタ・わたわた」| ① flustered/confused/panicked (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「わっさわっさ・ワッサワッサ」| ① with a bustle/with a hubbub (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱくっと」| ① (gaping) widely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ちょっぴし」| ① a tiny bit/just a smidgin/a wee bit/very slightly (👉 ちょっぴり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ゲフンゲフン・げふんげふん」| ① ahem/cough-cough/noise in lieu of a comment or contrary view (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ムチムチ・むちむち」| ① plump/chubby/voluptuous (👉 むっちり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴょいと」| ① lightly and nimbly/with agility (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「んん」| ① hm/um (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② nuh-uh/no (👉 ううん,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゅるっと・ニュルっと・ニュルッと」| ① with a wriggle/in a slimy way/coweringly/hesitantly (👉 にゅるり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「にゅるにゅる」| ① slithering/wriggling (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごちょごちょ」| ① (going) on and on (about trivial matters)/(complaining about) this and that/trivially (chatting) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピーポー」| ① nee-naw (sound of an emergency vehicle siren)/wee-woo (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バチバチ・ばちばち」| ① crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.)/sparking/sputtering/spitting (👉 パチパチ,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② to fight/to argue (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぴえん・ピエン・ぴえーん・ピエーン」| ① boohoo/boo hoo/sniff sniff/sob sob/waa waa (✋ slang; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぱさり」| ① with a light thud (👉 ばさり) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ばさっと」| ① with a flap/with a snap/with a thud/with a crash/with a swish/with a rustle (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バブー・ばぶう・ばぶー」| ① waa/waawaa/boohoo (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「バブバブ・ばぶばぶ」| ① waawaa/boohoo (👉 バブー) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽよぽよ・ポヨポヨ」| ① soft/bouncy (👉 びよーん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「たゆんたゆん・タユンタユン」| ① bouncy (esp. of breasts) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「びよーん・ビヨーン・ぽよーん・ポヨーン」| ① sproing/boing (👉 ぴょーん,2) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ピタピタ・ぴたぴた」| ① with a patting motion/lightly (tapping) (👉 ぺたぺた,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② (sticking) fast/firmly/closely (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ③ sloshing (liquid)/swaying (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word; obscure term)
「こてんこてん・コテンコテン」| ① completely (beaten, defeated, etc.)/thoroughly/utterly/black and blue/to a pulp (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ぽい・ポイ・ぽいっ・ポイっ・ポイッ」| ① carelessly (throwing, tossing, etc.)/nonchalantly/casually (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ワン・わん」| ① woof/arf/bow-wow (👉 ワンワン,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ごとん・ゴトン」| ① thump/clang/clank (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「がたんごとん・ガタンゴトン」| ① clickety-clack (👉 がたん,1;ごとん) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
濡れ濡れ「ぬれぬれ・ヌレヌレ」| ① wetly/moistly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ヌレヌレ・ぬれぬれ」| ① viscously/sticky/gooey (👉 粘々,ねばねば,1) (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ジュポジュポ・じゅぽじゅぽ」| ① slurp-slurp/suck-suck/sound of blowjob suction (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
「ほーほー・ホーホー・ほうほう」| ① hoot hoot/tu-whit tu-whoo (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word) ② oh!/I see/huh!
「のたり」| ① relaxedly/leisurely/slowly/calmly (✋ onomatopoeic or mimetic word)