"Meow"
It's a perfect description of the sound and has a very similar spelling through a bunch of different languages
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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This one's Japanese (which has a lot of onomatopoeia btw), but ki-ki-ki is the sound of a violin being played badly. I put my poor family through a lot of that when I was taking lessons as a kid. I could hear my aunts in the background saying "mata ki-ki-ki yatteru." That's basically Japanese for "there he goes sawing away again".
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Tintinabulation!
It's not as direct an onomatopoeia as your example, but it so perfectly encapsulates the experience of hearing the bells, bells, bells, that it counts imo
ใใซใใซ (Pika-pika) is a japanese onomatopoeia for blinking, I like it because it's similar to the Portuguese blinking onomatopoeia: Pisca-pisca.
I didn't realise blinking made a noise
I confused onomatopoeia with mimetic... (-.-')
Fizzle
"guru guru" in Japanese means to turn or spin round and round.
In German, the sound that pigeons make.
Like the Windmill guru
Bam!
Scratching or the German equivalent Kratzen. It fits the activity and the resulting noises perfectly.
Ooh it does