| Japanese SFX | English Translation | Notes | Examples/Links/Other Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| わんわん・ワンワン | bow-wow; woof woof; wuff wuff | a dog barking | |
| わんわん・ワンワン | wah wah | someone crying | |
| ワタワタ・わたわた | falter | to become flustered; nervous panic from not knowing what to do; flounder/falter | person awkwardly fidgeting from nerves |
| わし・ワシ | pat | Girl’s hair being pat | |
| ワクワク・わくわく | woohoo; yay | excitement; from ワクワクする | |
| わくわく・ワクワク | happy; yippee; yay | excitement, being thrilled, slightly nervous | butterflies in stomach feeling |
| わいわい・ワイワイ | chatter chatter | commotion of a crowd | |
| わあああ・ワアアア | yaay; wooo; yeaaah | cheering | |
| リンゴーン・りんごーん | dong dong | school bell dinging (large bell) | |
| よろ・ヨロ | wobb, wobble, stagger, lurch | like よろめく | |
| よよよよ・ヨヨヨヨ | sob sob | to start crying; comes from よよと泣く | |
| よよ・ヨ・ | sob | to start crying; comes from よよと泣く | |
| よてよて・ヨテヨテ | totter totter | tottering footsteps, can sound kind of cute | a toddler taking their first steps |
| よじよじ | hup hup | man climbing onto a giant wolf's back | |
| やわやわ・ヤワヤワ | fluff; fwoof | soft | |
| やふふーう | Woohoo! | Person yelling in excitement | |
| モワ・もわ | fluff | ||
| モヤモヤ・もやもや | haze; fwuzz | ||
| モヤモヤ・もやもや | ponder ponder; muse; mull; brood; worry | thinking; a thought bubble forming | |
| もにょもにょ・モニョモニョ | mumble mumble | to falter when speaking | |
| もっさあ・モッサア | frump | messy in appearance | |
| もっ・モッ | nom; chomp; ohm | from もぐもぐ; eating | |
| もぞもぞ・モゾモゾ | shuffle shuffle | moving around, stirring | |
| もぐもぐ・モグモグ | chew; munch; nom nom; ohm nom | chewing something inside the mouth | |
| もががが・モガモガ | nghh | Struggling | |
| メー | baah | goat bleating | |
| むら・ムラ | horny; bulge; huff; hot and bothered | Often seen in spicier manga | |
| むずむず・ムズムズ | Restless | ||
| むす・ムス | sulk; hmph | ||
| むぐむぐ・ムグムグ・むぐ・ムグ | nom nom; nom | Chewing on something while not opening mouth | |
| ムク・むく | rise; shup; hwup; hup | rising up | someone sitting up, usually from bed |
| ミーン・みーん | vreeeen | cicada calls; usually associated with summer | |
| マンメンミ | woomy | from Splatoon | |
| ボンキュッボン・ぼんきゅっぼん | va-va-voom | describes an hourglass figure | |
| ぽん・ポン | pat | ||
| ぼりぼり・ボリボリ | skritch skritch | to scratch | |
| ぼとり | thump; thud | something heavy dropping | |
| ポタポタ・ぽたぽた | splat splat | Dripping sound | Often used for blood or viscous liquid |
| ボソッ・ぼそっ | mutter | ||
| ぼすん・ボスン | fwump | hitting the ground | |
| ポス・ぽす | fwump; pat | the act of patting something fluffy (blanket or a pillow) | |
| ボケ | daze; blank; glaze | from 呆ける | |
| ホクホク・ほくほく | yippee; tickled pink; beam; merry | having a pleased look | |
| ホカホカ・ほかほか | poff poff | Warm; steaming | |
| ポイ・ぽい | yeet; fwing; fling; toss | ||
| ぽ・ポ・ポッ・ぽっ | flare; flash; fwoosht | a flame igniting | |
| ペタコッ・ぺたこっ | thmp | pressing a wax seal on a letter/envelope | |
| べしゃ・ベシャ | smack | ||
| ぷんぷん・プンプン | huff huff; fume | being in a bad mood; fuming; angry | |
| ふんふん・フンフン | mmhmm; uh-huh | voicing agreement with another person | |
| フンフン | sniff sniff; huff huff; hff hff; sneef sneef | smelling something | |
| プンプン | sniff sniff | inhaling to smell something | |
| ブンブン | wave wave; fwoom fwoom | ||
| プンス・ぷんす | hmph, huff, fume | someone mad and fuming | |
| ブン・ぶん | fwsh | ||
| ふわふわ・フワフワ | fluff; float; drift; glide; floof | ||
| ブロロロ・ぶろろろ | putt putt putt | car/bus running | |
| ブロロロ・ぶろろろ | vrrm | Bus running | |
| ぶるんぶるん・ブルンブルン | jiggle jiggle; fwoom fwoom (if heavy) | ||
| ぷるんぷるん・プルンプルン | jiggle jiggle | softly jiggling, often used for pudding | Jigglypuff |
| プルルル | ring ring; bzz bzz | Ringing of a phone | |
| ぶるぶる・ブルブル | shake shake; shiver shiver; qvr qvr | shaking | |
| プルプル・ぷるぷる | qvr qvr; shake shake; shiver shiver | ||
| ぷりぷり・プリプリ | wiggle wiggle; jiggle jiggle | to be slightly bouncy when touched | |
| ぷりぷり・プリプリ | huff huff; fume | to be angry; fuming; in a huff | |
| ブリッ・ぶりっ | rip | ||
| プリ・ぷり | plop | ||
| ブシ | fwoop | ||
| ぶくぶく・ブクブク | blup blup | ||
| ブクブク・ぶくぶく | bubble bubble; froth froth; blub blub | bubbles forming | |
| フィリリ・ふぃりり | chirrup chirrup; chirr; chirp chirp | The sound a クサヒバリ makes. Type of cricket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRFdrfkgJRI | |
| プイ | snub | turning away sharply, negative connotation | |
| プァーン | honk; choochoo | The honk of a train as it departs | |
| ヒルル・ひるる | flit; fwmp | something flitting down; usually not a heavy sound | Board falling from a building |
| ピリ・ぴり・ピリピリ・ぴりぴり | tear, rip | ||
| ピリ・ぴり | krakl | emotional tension between people | |
| ぴょんこ・ピョンコ | boing | Jumping rope | |
| ぴょん・ピョン | hop; hyah | a light hop | Girl jumping over vaulting box |
| ぴよぴよ・ピヨピヨ | cheep cheep | cheeping of chicks (especially of chickens) | |
| ひょこひょこ・ヒョコヒョコ | wobble wobble | ||
| ぴょこぴょこ・ピョコピョコ | bounce; sproing sproing; skip (when referring to walking); hop | bouncing or springy with an up and down motion | a person nodding; "spring" in someone's step; bouncing pigtails |
| ひょこ・ヒョコ | pop | ||
| ヒョイ・ひょい・ひょいっ・ヒョイッ | hwup; yoink | picking up something | |
| ひゅう・ヒュウ | fwoosh | wind rushing by | |
| ビュー・びゅー | fwoo; fwoosh | ||
| ピッ・ぴっ | bip | Phone clicking as call ends | |
| ひそひそ・ヒソヒソ | wsp wsp; psst | whispering | |
| ヒソヒソ | wsp wsp | whispering | |
| ぴしっ・ピシッ | fwp | Sound of paper being held up | |
| ピシッ・びしっ | shup | standing straight | Dog standing at attention |
| ピシッ・ぴしっ | sparkle | ||
| ビシ・びし | point; schwip | someone using their finger to point at something; usually a quick movement | |
| ビシ・びし | flick; whpsh | ||
| ビク・びく・ビクッ・びくっ | jolt; flinch | flinching from surprise; also see less intense ぴく・ピク | someone's shoulders abruptly lifting from surprise; someone jumping from shock |
| ぴく・ピク | jolt; twitch | usually quick movement from surprise; twitch of the fingers; also see びく・ビク | |
| ピカーン | shing | ||
| ピカーン | sparkle | ||
| ピーポーピーポー・ぴーぽーぴーぽー | weewoo weewoo | Ambulance siren; see: https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13248584098 | |
| ぴー・ピー | fweet; fwee; twee | a whistle | |
| パンッ・ぱんっ | wham | ||
| バン | bam | ||
| バン | slam | Door opening | |
| パリン・ぱりん | krak | Window being shattered by cloth-covered arm | |
| バリン・ぱりん | smash; crunch; crack; fvwing | something breaking, usually something hard (glass) | |
| バリバリ・ばりばり | pure, all in, 100%, purely | not really an SFX when used in this context, but could show up in a way that makes it seem like an SFX; make sure to look up other definitions too | バリバリの日本人 (i.e. "born and raised in Japan") |
| バリバリ・ばりばり | vrr vrr | sound of an engine revving up | |
| バリバリ・ばりばり | rip; tear; zhiipp | something being torn to shreds | paper being torn to bits; cat scratching a post |
| バリバリ・ばりばり | working hard; putting in a lot of effort into something | ||
| パリッ・ぱりっ | fresh | pressed shirt being put on | |
| パラリラパラリラ・ぱらりらぱらりら | palah reerah palah reerah | Sound of a motocycle horn; https://pocket-se.info/archives/1497/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qzlhAtAai0 | |
| ハラハラ・はらはら | fret fret | being anxious; wavering from nervousness | |
| はむっ・ハムっ | chomp | ||
| はふはふ・ハフハフ | pant pant | Dog panting | |
| バパパパパ・ぱぱぱぱぱ | vrrmm | Car driving | |
| バツン・ばつん | snap | ||
| バッ・ばっ | lift; fwip; flip | ||
| ばっ・バッ | fwp; fwsht | someone letting go of something abruptly, especially another person's hand | |
| ばっ・バッ | gasp | ||
| ばっ・バッ | freeze | person stopping | |
| ばっ・バッ | leap | ||
| ぱっ・パッ | blink | ||
| バッ | shwip | sticking hand in bag | |
| ハッ | pant | ||
| パチン・ぱちん | snip | Sound of knife flipping open | |
| パチン・ぱちん | krakl | ||
| パチパチ・ぱちぱち | clap clap | Applause (sometimes written as “888” はちはちはち) | |
| パチッ・ぱちっ | krakl | ||
| パチ・ぱち | flick; flk; blink | Eyes opening; avoid "snap" when used for eyes | |
| バタン | slam; btam | Door shutting | |
| バタン | thmp | book closing | |
| バシュウウウウ | fsshh | ||
| バシャーン | fwap! | pin landing on clothing dramatically | |
| パシャ・ぱしゃ | flash | camera flash | |
| バシャ | splash; splsh | ||
| パシッ・ぱしっ | grab | ||
| パシ・ぱし | grab | Someone grabbing something | |
| バサバサ・ばさばさ | flutter flutter; rustle rustle; rstl rstl | ||
| バサバサ・ばさばさ | flap; fwap | Bird flapping its wings | |
| パコーン・ぱこーん | thwack | something hitting a surface quickly and bouncing; ricochet | ball bounding off the ground |
| パクパク・ぱくぱく | glub glub; gawp gawp; gaped; gape; flap flap | Sound of a mouth silently opening and closing | |
| ぱくっ・パクッ | chomp | dog eating treat | |
| はぐ・ハグ | nom, chomp | taking a bite of something to eat | |
| バキ・ばき | crack; snap | ||
| ぱき・パキ | krak; krakl | snapping sound | |
| パカーン・ぱかーん | ka-thunk | chopped through a chopping board | |
| バアッ | leap | ||
| ぱあああ・パアアア | aww!; glow; beam | ||
| バアーン | baaam | shocking revelation | |
| ハア・はあ | huff; hff | breathing out | |
| のそ・ノソ | lurch; plod | ||
| ぬっ・ヌッ | sniff | Dog sniffing | |
| ドン・どん | thump; boink; thwak | ||
| トホホ・とほほ | boo-hoo; sob; weep | ||
| トボトボ・とぼとぼ | plod plod; trudge trudge | to trudge, often wearily, sometimes downtroddenly after something disappointing has happened | |
| ドボーン | sploosh | ||
| ドプン | sploosh | ||
| トプリと | to sink completely; often referring to the sun setting | ||
| トプリと | completely; entirely | ||
| トプリと | Same as とっぷり | ||
| どどど・ドドド | tmp tmp tmp | Person walking ominously | |
| どっ・ドッ | Lol; wah ha ha; guffaw | Loud laughter; from ドッとする | |
| ドッ | thud; whmp | something heavy falling and making a loud sound as it hits | |
| ドタドタ | stomp stomp | ||
| どす・ドス・とす・トス | jab; stab | ||
| ドシャ | thud; crash; krash | ||
| ドシ | wham | person falling to the floor after being hit | |
| どきん・ドキン | b-bmp; b-dmp | heartbeat; heart skipping a beat | |
| ドキドキ・どきどき | b-dmp; ba-dmp; throb; b-bmp; ba-bump | excitement, usually nervous; sound of a heart pounding | |
| ドガ・どが | kaboom | explosive sound | |
| ドオオオン | ta-daaah | something visible that shouldn’t be (comedic) | |
| どーん・ドーン | bam; boom | ||
| どーどー・ドードー | whoa whoa | Said to someone who is upset, similar to when settling down a horse | https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13127284533 |
| と・ト・とっ・トッ | tmp; tp; thmp | footfall | |
| てんてん・テンテン | boing boing; thwop thwop; pong pong | something lightly bouncing | |
| てちてち・テチテチ | thomp thomp | ||
| てくてく・テクテク | trot trot | Light walking | |
| ツルッ | slip | ||
| ツカツカ・つかつか | tmp tmp | to walk without hesitation; to walk right up to | |
| チリチリ | smart | pain on skin from very cold or very hot (scorching) weather | |
| チラ | glance | giving a quick look at something | |
| チョロ・ちょろ | dart; scamper | to quickly move from one spot to another | a person hovering over another person asking questions and darting from one side of them to another |
| チュンチュン・ちゅんちゅん | chirp chirp | Birds chirping, often in the morning when a character wakes up | |
| ちゅっ・チュッ | smooch | a kiss | |
| チャリン | clink | ||
| チャリ | jingle | ||
| チッチッチッチッ | tsk tsk tsk tsk; ps ps ps ps; ks ks ks ks; tch tch tch tch | sound made when calling a cat | https://youtu.be/eFXSt1jjgdE |
| チチチチ | tsk tsk tsk tsk; ps ps ps ps; ks ks ks ks; tch tch tch tch | sound made when calling a cat | https://youtu.be/eFXSt1jjgdE |
| ちくちく・チクチク | pang; twinge; zing; sting | a pang/sting from a negative emotion | |
| チーン | ding | presenting a meatball on a plate | |
| タン・たん | PTOOM | laser sound | |
| だらーん | fwump | ||
| タッ・ダッ・たっ・だっ | kalunk | Clanking sound of a train as it departs | |
| た・タ・たっ・タッ | tmp; dash; tat; pitapat | Footsteps | |
| タッ | scuff | taking a quick step forward; breaking out into a run | |
| たたん・タタン | ka-tunk; ka-lunk | a train clanking as it moves | |
| たたた・タタタ | tmp tmp tmp; tp tp tp | footsteps | |
| たし・タシ | pad; tmp | walking around | |
| だーっ・ダーっ | whoosh; woosh; fwsh | Running; Turning around quickly | |
| そわそわ・ソワソワ | fidget fidget | being restless | |
| ぞろぞろ・ゾロゾロ | shuffle shuffle; swarm; crowd crowd | lots of things rushing in | a crowd shuffling into a train |
| ゾクゾク・ぞくぞく | shiver; quiver; jitter | excitement; goosebumps; a shiver of excitement; to be titillated be careful when using "shiver" since might be mistaken for nervousness or a negative emotion | |
| ゾクゾク・ぞくぞく | shiver; shudder; quiver; tremble | shivering from feeling cold or creeped out; careful not to mistake for other sense of shivering out of excitement | |
| せかせか・セカセカ | fidget fidget; fuss fuss | unable to calm down | |
| ずんずんずん・ズンズンズン | thud thud thud; womp womp womp; wmp wmp wmp | heavy footsteps | |
| すんすん・スンスン | sniffle | ||
| ズン・ずん | gloom; dun | ||
| ずん・ズン | shuk; shoonk | something being thrust quickly into something else | sword being driven into a body |
| すん・スン | icy; blank; brood; hm; hmph | A blank expression, often purposefully taken on to show dissatisfaction or that the person is unimpressed Lack of reaction, blank reaction | |
| すん・スン | pout; pause; mull; brood; icy | A newer manga sound effect that likely came from うんともすんとも Often used in comedic scenarios when someone goes silent, but also used for when a person reacts emotionally to something someone else has said without showing it on their face | https://anond.hatelabo.jp/20190216230016 |
| すりすり・スリスリ・スーリ・すーり | nuzzle; rub | rubbing (often one's face) against something else lovingly; sometimes done as a sign of ownership (think cat rubbing its face against something) | cat nuzzling a fish; rat nuzzling a piece of cheese |
| スポン・すぽん | shloop | sound of something fitting into something perfectly; of something sliding into place (the sound of the air seal being made) | closing the top to a bento box |
| すぽぽん・スポポン | tum tum | sound when hitting a taiko drum | |
| ずびずび・ズビズビ | sniffle sniffle | Nose sniffles https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%9A%E3%81%B3%E3%81%9A%E3%81%B3 | |
| ずひ・ズヒ | sniffle | Similar to ずびずび but less intense | |
| ズバババ・ずばばば | brrp burrf | throwing up bad cooking | |
| すっ・スッ | tap; tmp | ||
| すっ・スッ | shwf | someone standing quickly from a seated position | |
| スタスタ | stomp stomp | ||
| スタスタ | tmp tmp | ||
| ズズ/ずず | doom | ||
| すごすご・スゴスゴ | trudge trudge | To walk away in low sprits (similar to しおしお・シオシオ) | |
| すく・スク | stand | someone standing up | |
| ずかずか・ズカズカ | tmp tmp | to walk right up to something without hesitation; See ツカツカ | |
| ずううん・ズウウン | doom | ||
| ズーン/ずーん | loom | looming over something/someone, usually menacingly | |
| ずーずー・ズーズー | sniffle sniffle | Nose sniffles | |
| すー・スー | phew; whew | breathing out | |
| すー・スー | zzz; doze | light sleeping | |
| ず・ズ | shwf; slip | slipping | |
| しん | cricket cricket (good for comedic effect); hush; shh; still | silence | |
| ジリリリ | rring | phone ringing | |
| しゅん | gloom; shwump | ||
| じゃん/ジャン | ta-dah; ta-da (house spellings vary by publisher) | fanfare; presenting something with flair; check the house style for correct spelling | |
| しゃかしゃか・シャカシャカ | thrum thrum | Sound of music leaking from earphones | |
| シャアー | fssssh | someone taking a shower | |
| じゃーん | ta-dah; ta-da (house spellings vary by publisher) | fanfare; presenting something with flair; check the house style for correct spelling | |
| じたばた | flail flail | ||
| じたたばたた | flail flail | ||
| ししし・シシシ | hee hee; heh heh | Laugh similar to a ひひひ but more mischievous; https://blog.goo.ne.jp/bellwood0625/e/d4cdf93fd8550b7ed22b398aa9dbe020 | |
| シーン・しーん・しいん・シイン | cricket cricket (good for comedic effect); hush; still | silence | |
| じーん・ジーン | touched; heartwarming; warm fuzzies; moved; sniffle; the feels | Heartwarming feeling; to be moved or brought to happy tears | |
| ジーワジーワ・じーわじーわ | bzz bzz; chrr chrr; chirp chirp; vreen vreen | crescendo of cicadas, usually in association with summer; sometimes paired with ミーンミーン | |
| ざわわ・ザワワ | shudder | ||
| ざわっ・ザワッ | jolt; shudder | ||
| ざわざわ・ザワザワ | chatter chatter; murmur murmur; hubbub; stir; psst; rustle; jostle | Commotion of a crowd | |
| ざわ・ザワ | chatter; murmur | Commotion of a crowd | |
| ザリッ | skritch | ||
| サラサラ | sfw sfw | smoothly writing something down | |
| サバッ | sploosh | ||
| ザッ・ざっ | tmp; shup; shf; schff; skiff | quick movement, often of feet | |
| ザッ・ざっ | sha | ||
| ザッ・ざっ | fzzt | Static during a dog’s premonition | |
| ザシャン | kashunk | ||
| ザザザ | zzzt | static | |
| ザザーン | fzzzzzzt | Food appearing in a premonition (static-y sound) | |
| ザグン・ざぐん | kchunk | a shovel digging into the ground | |
| ザクザク・ざくざく | crunch | stepping on something crunchy or that grates against itself when pressure is applied | a shovel digging into the dirt |
| ざあ・ザア | shaa; ksssh | rain coming down in sheets | |
| ざーん・ザーン | kshh; wshh; zshh | Soft lapping waves at a beach/the ocean | |
| ザ・ざ | stand | ||
| ゴンッ・ごんっ・ごん・ゴン | thunk; thud | a hollow thud | |
| コン | wham | ||
| ゴロンゴロン・ごろんごろん | roll roll | something tumbling or rolling | |
| ゴロゴロ・ごろごろ | purr purr | cat purring | |
| ゴロゴロ・ごろごろ | rumble rumble | something heavy rolling | boulder rolling |
| コロコロ | klink klink | something light rolling along; usually rocks | |
| ゴポポポポ | gurgle glug glug; blub blub blub | Drowning child | |
| ゴバッ | glurg | ||
| ゴト・ごと | thump | ||
| コッコッコッコ | bak bak bak bak | the sound a hen makes | |
| こっくり | nod | ||
| コチ | tic | Clock ticking | |
| ゴソゴソ | rustle rustle; riffle | rummaging through something | |
| ゴゴゴゴ・ごごごご | doom, rrrrr, rm rm, rmbl rmbl, dun dun; tum tum tum tum; rhhm rhhm | ominous sound | an eerie hallway |
| ゴゴ・ごご | whirr | door opening after electrical lock disengages | |
| コケコッコー | cockadoodledoo | rooster crowing | |
| コクリ・こくり | nod; bob | quick nod or bow | |
| こくっ・コクッ・こく・コク | nod | Nodding head | |
| ゴオン・ごおん | thoom | a rumbling sound, slightly hollow | |
| ごお・ゴオ | roar; flare | the roar of a fire | |
| ゴオ・ごお | rumble; roar; gwoo; vwoosh | loud and low sound | a meteor; the roar of a fire |
| ごうん・ゴウン | vwoom | ||
| ケロ | ribbit; croak | the sound a frog makes | |
| ゲプっ | blurp | ||
| ケッ | hmph | ||
| ぐわっ・グワッ | bwa ha | Person sneakily hitting someone from behind | |
| ぐわしゃ・グワシャ | splat | ||
| くる・クル・くるっ・クルッ・くり・クリ | fwip; turn | ||
| くらくら・クラクラ | swoon | to feel dizzy (not necessarily a negative meaning—giddy) | |
| くら・クラ | swoon | see くらくら | |
| グラ・ぐら | roll | ||
| くしゃ・クシャ | ruffle; tup | ruffling someone's hair | |
| ぐぐ・ググ | strugg strugg; strain; heave; noosh; nsh | struggling to do something; exerting effort | |
| ぐいぐい・グイグイ | yank | push or pull hard; sometimes slight negative image | |
| ぐい・グイ | yank; pull; tug | someone pulling another person by the hand | |
| ぐ・グ | clench; klench | someone clenching their hand into a fist | |
| キリッ・きりっ | glint | ||
| キラキラ・きらきら | sparkle sparkle; twinkle twinkle | ||
| きょろ・キョロ | glance; scan | looking around | |
| キュッ・きゅっ・キュー・きゅー | chug; glug | drinking very fast; chugging a drink, often refreshing; also see: https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%8D%E3%82%85%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A8-477483 | |
| キュッ・きゅっ | squek | A faucet being turned | |
| キューン・きゅーん | ba-dump | Person blushing | |
| ギューン・ぎゅーん | ba-dump | Person blushing | |
| ギューン・ぎゅーん | woosh | ||
| ギヒヒ・ぎひひ | skruh | ||
| ぎっ・ぎゅ・ぎゅう・ギッ・ギュ・ギュウ | skweeze; squeeze; clench | a hug, clenching a fist | |
| キッ・きっ | skree | ||
| ぎく・ギク・ぎくっ・ギクッ | jolt; gulp; urk; wince | to be startled; often after someone else says something implicative | |
| キキッ・ききっ | scree | ||
| キイイ・きいい | screee | Airplane landing | |
| キイイ・きいい | skree | Violin being played badly | |
| キィ・きぃ | creak | ||
| キーンコーンカーンコーン | bing bong beng bong; ding dong dang dong; ding dong deng dong; ding dong bing bong | classic school bell | |
| ガンガン・がんがん | klang klang | ||
| カンカン・かんかん | klang klang | Firetruck siren; see: https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13248584098 | |
| ガン・がん | klang | ||
| ガン | slam | ||
| がるる・ガルル | grr; growl | ||
| カラン・からん | ding | Clinking; bell ringing | |
| ガラン | wobble | ||
| ガラガラ・がらがら | clonk clonk | Cart rattling | |
| ガヤガヤ・がやがや | chatter chatter | ||
| カポーン・かぽーん・かぽん・カポン | drip drop; plonk; plunk; klunk; splish | Sound of a bowl in the bath hitting the ground; indicates the sound of water/bathing; Sound of the bamboo from a deer scare tipping | |
| ガバッ・がばっ・がば・ガバ | shwf; vwoosh; spring; whup | quickly getting up | |
| かっ・カッ・カツ・かつ・かっかっ・カッカッ・カツカツ・かつかつ | klak; clomp | Footsteps—especially heels | |
| ガッ・がっ | pound | ||
| かちん・カチン | click | something clicking into a well-fitting spot | |
| かちん・カチン | zing; sting | to feel offended or hurt; かちんと来る | |
| がちゃがちゃ・ガチャガチャ | grumble grumble | to complain a lot | |
| ガチャガチャ・がちゃがちゃ | messy | something being cluttered | cluttered desk |
| ガチャガチャ・がちゃがちゃ | chirp chirp | call of a specific type of grasshopper (クツワムシ) | |
| ガチャガチャ・がちゃがちゃ | k-chak | hard things hitting each other | sound made when turning the handle on a capsule machine (gachapon) |
| ガチャ・がちゃ | click; klik | phone being hung up | |
| ガチャ・がちゃ | chak | Door opening | |
| ガチャ・がちゃ | klat | Setting down a tray | |
| ガチャ・がちゃ | gacha (as in a randomly drawn prize in a game) | originated from gachapon machines which made a gachagacha noise when turning the handle, the term now also applies to mobile games with randomly drawn in-game items/prizes | |
| カチカチ | freeze | freezing up from fear | |
| カチカチ | tick tock | clock hand ticking | |
| がち・ガチ | chomp | ||
| ガタンゴトン・がたんごとん | ktunk ktunk; kalunk kalunk; chugga chugga | Train running | |
| ガタガタ・がたがた | rattle rattle | ||
| ガション・かしょん | kachung | Elevator door closing | |
| がしゅがしゅ・がシュガシュ | chomp chomp | eating furiously | |
| ガシャン・がしゃん | thunk; crash; bam; clang; clank | ||
| ガシャン・がしゃん | chak; kreesh; klang | a clank sound; door closing | |
| ガシャ・がしゃ | clang; jangle; messy; k-chak (if used in same sense as ガチャ) | small objects hitting each other noisily; something messy with lots of little things strewn about; also see ガチャ for gachapon sense | |
| がしっ・ガシッ | yoink; clasp | ||
| がし・ガシ | grab; catch; snatch | Someone grabbing something or someone with their hand | |
| ガコン・がこん | ka-shunk | door opening | |
| ガコン・がこん | kchuk | door opening | |
| カコッ | thip | monocle being inserted into eye socket | |
| ガコオン | kathnk | heavy door closing | |
| がくんがくん・ガクンガクン | shake shake | Child shaking a dog | |
| ガクガク・がくがく | chatter; clatter (from shivering) | knees knocking together from shivering | |
| ガク/ガクリ・がっくり | slump; shwump | person slumping from disappointment/something bad happening; similar to シュン but more abrupt | someone falling to their knees; someone's head lowering abruptly in disappointment |
| ガク・ガクリ・がっくり | swoop; jerk; halt; slump; crash (in the non-literal sense: "crashed" in the charts); nosedive; plummet | something stops or falls abruptly; refers to the jerking motion | the jerk as a car suddenly brakes; missing a step on the stairs; crashed/nosedived in the popularity charts |
| かきかき・カキカキ | scritch scritch | think 掻く | |
| ガガガガ・がががが | bam bam bam bam | children arguing | |
| カカカカ | rattle | ||
| がーん・ガーン | shock; gasp; what! | shock from something (usually unfortunate) happening | |
| おほん・オホン | ahem | clearing throat | |
| オオオオオ | roarr; whoosh | wind rushing in night scene of buildings | |
| オオオオオ | ooooo; rooooar | Ominous hallway/passage; ominous place | |
| えぐえぐ・エグエグ | sniffle sniffle; wah wah | crying; similar to ぐずんぐずん but not all-out wailing | |
| うとうと・ウトウト | doze; nod (when drifting to sleep); yawn | Drifting to sleep; the action of nodding off where the head dips | |
| うず・ウズ | fidget | ||
| ウキウキ・うきうき | giddy; merry; yay; yippee | state of being happy | |
| ウー・うー | weewoo weewoo | Firetruck siren; see: https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13248584098 | |
| イライラ・いらいら | grr; irk irk | to be annoyed | |
| イキイキ・いきいき | pep pep; lively; brisk; active; zip zip; perky; chipper | to be energetic and active | |
| あわあわ・アワアワ | panic; uh uh; fret fret | a person panicking or losing their cool; being in a fluster | |
| あわあわ・アワアワ | bubble bubble; froth; blub blub | bubbles forming; soap bubbles; light bubbles like froth | |
| ファンファン・ふぁんふぁん | weewoo weewoo | Police car siren; see: https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13248584098 | |
| VWEEM | laser sound | ||
| KAZAP | laser sound | ||
| PACK | muffled thump | ||
| ごく・ゴク | gulp; ulp | ||
| ぎょ・ギョ | shook; shock | ||
| クリクリ・くりくり | bulge | usually eyes opening wide; indicates roundness | |
| バチ・ばち | zap; zing | eyes meeting | |
| うりゅう・ウリュウ・ うるうる・ウルウル | sniffle | tearing up | http://headjockaa.g1.xrea.com/realjp/onomatope.html |
| ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ | bamf; pow; thmp thmp | beating up, punching | |
| ぐん・グン | thwoom; fwoom; fwoosh | moving forward very fast and suddenly | |
| ビクン・びくん | flinch, jolt, wince | ||
| グキ・ぐき | jerk | ||
| あたふた・アタフタ | fidget | ||
| ざしゃあ・ザシャア | whoosh, swoosh | ||
| ヴー・ゔー | buzz, bzz | ||
| ツタタタ・つたたた | tap tap tap, tp tp tp | phone input | |
| カッ・かっ | flash | flash of light | |
| ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ | blorp; glorp; glup | ||
| ペッ・ぺっ | ptoo | ||
| ぽかん・ポカン | gawk; shock | ||
| ワキワキ・わきわき | grabby grabby | ||
| チュウ・ちゅう | smooch; smch; kiss; peck; XOXO | ||
| スマスマ・すますま | tap tap; tp tp | Using a phone | |
| ぐぬぬ・グヌヌ | seethe; grr | ||
| どよ・ドヨ | stir, rumble | ||
| ガー・がー | whirr; whrr | Sound of machinery; elevator door opening | |
| パラパラ・ぱらぱら | clatter clatter; klatter klatter; plink plink; krumble | Sound of small bits of rubble crumbling | |
| ぶわん・ブワン | bwom | ||
| どろ・ドロ | drupp; glup | Sludgy/muddy/viscous liquid | |
| みち・ミチ・みっちり・ミッチリ | packed; full; zoosh | ||
| ベロベロ・べろべろ | neener neener | Sticking tongue out to mock someone | |
| ぴと・ピト | press | ||
| メモメモ・めもめも | skt skt; skrib skrib | Taking notes |