Japanese sound symbolism - WikipediaAn example of Japanese sound symbolism, 'Tah-dah!' (ジャーン!, Jān!) The Japanese language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones.[1][2] Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese.[3] Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings;[1] indeed, many sound-symbolic
