“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatopoeia

Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by thematrixturtle on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:08PM (#31334251)

My favorite Japanese onomatopoeia is shiin (シーン), the sound of silence. Used both literally and figuratively if you're shocked into silence by something.

Interestingly, English has the latter use too, we just write it "..." and it doesn't have a pronunciation.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by gus_massa on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:22PM (#31334368)

In Argentina we use "cri cri" (that sounds like "kree kree"). It's suppose to be sound of crickets.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by labster on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:27PM (#31335546)

Japan has the tsukutsukuboshi, which is a cricket that sounds like that.

There’s definite animal naming from their sounds. For one species, we get: crow, corvo, karasu, Krähe, cacalotl, gaa, kkamagwi.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by totetsu on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:26PM (#31334400)

A stand out memory from my visit to Argentina was all the crazy bug sounds. One sounded exactly like the cartoon sound effect of an arrow being shot into a target.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by ukz on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:16PM (#31335113)

Same here in Indonesia, we use “krik krik”.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by anthk on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:58PM (#31335005)

Spain too.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by lmiller1990 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:58PM (#31334618)

Another fun one regarding silence would be じっと見る（JITTO MIRU）which is the sound of someone staring at something.

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by needle0 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:02PM (#31334652)

That would be the adjective+verb form, as it would appear in regular prose. If written as an onomatopoeia it would be written じーっ (Jiii')

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Re:“Shuwa-Shuwa” is an illustrated book of Japanese onomatop... by KSPAtlas on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:35AM (#31336508)

I haven't heard that dad joke yet.

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