In our daily life, we always affected by the Japanese culture. There were those example of katakana that we found, include onomatopoeia, loan words, emphasized words, scientific naming and kaomoji.
Onomatopoeia:
The sound of coming down the stair = トントン
The sound the cats make = ニャア ニャア
Loan words:
Tennis:テニス
Cream:クーリム
Choco:チョーコ
Emphasized words:
ダメ in a アルティメット ドールズ comic.
Scientific naming:
ミヤマカラスアゲハ is the scientific name of butterful
Kaomoji:
Many Japanese love to use emoticons(kaomoji) on their cell phones or computers!
Because emoticons are so popular, they are used in manga too.
In recently years, Hong Kong people also try to use kaomoji in their communication tools,
compare with the traditional words ,this kind of communicate are much more interesting.
Very interesting analysis.
回覆刪除I didn't know people in Hong Kong also use kaomoji. do they use Japanese kaomoji or the something similar?
Those kaomoji are very interesting!!Some of them I haven't seen before.I am wondering that the meanings of particular kaomoji is fixed or not??
回覆刪除The picture of the little cat is so cute (U.U)
回覆刪除Thanks for sharing the Kaomoji! LOVE THIS FUNNY WRITING._.
I think the kaomoji have different meaning at the same time, most of them are show the emotion,such as happy or disappointed?
回覆刪除Thank you for yours reply ^v^
チョコ is the short form of チョコレート(loanword)
回覆刪除I think Japanese like to remember the shorter one XD