Today’s word, \u30d1\u30c1\u30d1\u30c1 (pachi pachi) is an onomatopoeic Japanese word meaning:<\/p>\n
1. pleasant clapping sound;
\n2. sound of something hot bursting open (i.e. popcorn);
\n3. incessant blinking<\/p>\n
It came up while I was chatting with some Japanese friends earlier today and is one of the many onomatopoeic words in Japanese.<\/p>\n
Here are some more examples:<\/p>\n
\u30d0\u30e9\u30d0\u30e9 (bara bara) – rattle
\n\u30af\u30b9\u30af\u30b9 (kusu kusu) – giggle
\n\u30dd\u30c1\u30e3\u30dd\u30c1\u30e3 (pocha pocha) – splash
\n\u30d5\u30b5\u30d5\u30b5\u3000(fusa fusa) – a full and attractive head of hair
\n\u30ae\u30c8\u30ae\u30c8 (gito gito) – being oily
\n\u30a4\u30e9\u30a4\u30e9 (ira ira) – the state of being frustrated
\n\u30dd\u30ab\u30dd\u30ab (poka poka) – the state of being nice and warm<\/p>\n
See also this site<\/a> and this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n Interestingly, some such words describe visual phenomena, such as blinking, or feelings rather than sounds. Does any other language do this?<\/p>\n By the way, apologies if you’ve been unable to access this blog, my other blog<\/a>, the Omniglot forum<\/a> or some of the pages on Omniglot<\/a> recently. Unfortunately I haven’t managed to find a solution to this problem yet, though it usually sorts itself out after a while. If any of you have any ideas how to fix it, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s word, \u30d1\u30c1\u30d1\u30c1 (pachi pachi) is an onomatopoeic Japanese word meaning: 1. pleasant clapping sound; 2. sound of something hot bursting open (i.e. popcorn); 3. incessant blinking It came up while I was chatting with some Japanese friends earlier today and is one of the many onomatopoeic words in Japanese. Here are some more examples: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}