{"id":87,"date":"2009-06-01T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-06-01T21:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:04:30","slug":"japanese-onomatopoeia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-onomatopoeia\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Onomatopoeia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are different types of Japanese onomatopoeia. Today we&#8217;re going to just focus on one of the onomatopoeia. I&#8217;ll do another post on the others later. Today&#8217;s onomatopoeia is giseigo (<strong>\u64ec\u58f0\u8a9e<\/strong>). Giseigo (<strong>\u64ec\u58f0\u8a9e<\/strong>) is the type of onomatopoeia that mimics actual sounds. You&#8217;ll actually see what I mean with the examples below. You can see a lot of onomatopoeia in Japanese manga (<strong>\u307e\u3093\u304c<\/strong>) or comics. The words are sometimes written with the katakana (<strong>\u304b\u305f\u304b\u306a<\/strong>) for emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>nyaa nyaa: (<strong>\u30cb\u30e3\u30fc\u30cb\u30e3\u30fc<\/strong>) meow meow (the sound cats make)<\/p>\n<p>goro goro: (<strong>\u30b4\u30ed\u30b4\u30ed<\/strong>) purr purr (the sound cats make)<\/p>\n<p>wan wan: (<strong>\u30ef\u30f3\u30ef\u30f3<\/strong>) woof woof (the sound a dog makes)<\/p>\n<p>moo moo: (<strong>\u30e2\u30fc\u30e2\u30fc<\/strong>) muu muu (the sound that cows make)<\/p>\n<p>mee mee: (<strong>\u30e1\u30fc\u30e1\u30fc<\/strong>) baa baa (the sound sheeps make)<\/p>\n<p>hihiin: (<strong>\u30d2\u30d2\u30fc\u30f3<\/strong>) neigh neigh (the sound horses make)<\/p>\n<p>chuu chuu: (<strong>\u30c1\u30e5\u30fc\u30c1\u30e5\u30fc<\/strong>) chirp chirp (the sound a bird makes)<\/p>\n<p>kin kon (<strong>\u30ad\u30f3\u30b3\u30f3<\/strong>) ding dong (the sound of a door bell)<\/p>\n<p>kushu (<strong>\u30af\u30b7\u30e5<\/strong>) achoo (the sound of a sneeze)<\/p>\n<p>tsuu (<strong>\u30c4\u30fc<\/strong>) buzzz (sound of insects, bees)<\/p>\n<p>kero kero (<strong>\u30b1\u30ed\u30b1\u30ed<\/strong>) ribit ribit (sound of frogs croaking)<\/p>\n<p>buu buu (<strong>\u30d6\u30fc\u30d6\u30fc<\/strong>) oink oink (the sound of pigs)<\/p>\n<p>kokekokkoo (<strong>\u30b3\u30b1\u30b3\u30c3\u30b3\u30fc<\/strong>) cockadoodle doo (sound of rooster)<\/p>\n<p>Onomatopoeias differ by language and culture. I encourage you to post the onomatopoeias in your own language, using the katakana in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are different types of Japanese onomatopoeia. Today we&#8217;re going to just focus on one of the onomatopoeia. I&#8217;ll do another post on the others later. Today&#8217;s onomatopoeia is giseigo (\u64ec\u58f0\u8a9e). Giseigo (\u64ec\u58f0\u8a9e) is the type of onomatopoeia that mimics actual sounds. You&#8217;ll actually see what I mean with the examples below. You can see&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-onomatopoeia\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2805],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-onomatopoeia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}