What does 'piku' mean?
Charles Doane
I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice thing
to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as the
fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
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Charles Doane <gdo...@primenet.com> wrote in article
> I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
It's a sound effect.. the sound made by an eye blinking.
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On 6 Jul 1997 18:34:02 -0700, Charles Doane <gdo...@primenet.com> wrote:
>I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
>heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
>Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
>whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
>dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice thing
>to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as the
>fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
*piku* ^_-
"Piku," as used on this newsgroup, is just the Japanese onomatopoeia for
"blink." The "piku" sound effect is used in anime and manga by characters
who find themselves surprised or in disbelief of something. Picky's use of
the word is most likely totally different than what is meant on r.a.a.m;
"piku" is done, not said.
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Charles Doane (gdo...@primenet.com) wrote:
: I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
: heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
: Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
: whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
: dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice thing
: to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as the
: fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
There is also piku-piku, which would translate as the sound of someone
twitching. It's used more in manga since anime doesn't really need
written sound FX ;)
Example:
Shinobu nails Ataru for being a letch.
Ataru is laid out on the ground twitching, in the manga the sound FX for
this is "piku-piku".
Kouma Ryodachi
Charles Doane wrote on 6 Jul 1997 18:34:02 -0700:
>
> I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't
really
> heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
> Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
> whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
> dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice
thing
> to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as
the
> fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
>
*groan*
Piku, first of all, wouldn't appear in your language dictionary because
it's not exactly a real word. It's a sound effect used in manga.
You don't see it in anime because in anime they can actually *make* the
sound.
"piku" is the sound made by blinking your eyes.
And as for your video game...I doubt that's what's being said,
considering "piku" only appears in that form in manga and other formats
where the actual sound is not an option.
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no da.
Felix
sounds like "butt" in Chinese .
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Charles Doane <gdo...@primenet.com> wrote in article
> I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
> heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
> Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
> whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
> dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice thing
> to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as the
> fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
>
Wei-Hwa Huang
Charles Doane <gdo...@primenet.com> writes:
>I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
>heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
>Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
>whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
>dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice thing
>to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as the
>fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
Actually, "piku" is a sound effect.
In it's most generic form, it's the sound of a sudden, but small
movement. It's usually used for twitching and muscle spasms,
such as when a character has just been hit by a large jolt of
electricity and is twitching on the ground.
This doesn't look like the same "piku" in your videogame. Perhaps
he's just yelling a diminutive form of his name?
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Charles Doane
I guess I'm misunderstanding what Picky says. Thanks for the
explanation, it at least let me know I was wrong about it. It doesn't
make SENSE in that context. Picky does say 'piku' as a battle cry. Maybe
I'm going from aural to text wrong. The 'piku' I hear sounds like the
english word 'peek' followed by an 'oo' sound. (As in audience goes
(oooh)). Peekoo. Man is this getting silly, but I'd really like to know
WHAT it means.
Kouma Ryodachi
Charles Doane wrote on 9 Jul 1997 22:08:00 -0700:
>
<snip>
> explanation, it at least let me know I was wrong about it. It doesn't
> make SENSE in that context. Picky does say 'piku' as a battle cry.
Maybe
> I'm going from aural to text wrong. The 'piku' I hear sounds like the
> english word 'peek' followed by an 'oo' sound. (As in audience goes
> (oooh)). Peekoo. Man is this getting silly, but I'd really like to
know
> WHAT it means.
Umm...if you're HEARING the "oo" sound, you're not hearing /piku/. A
single /u/ is generally silent in spoken Japanese.
If you HEARD that sound, the word would more likely be spelled "pikuu",
which would be something else entirely.
(I have no idea WHAT though...)
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a@s.d
what about 'doki'? What's that?
My best guess is a telephone ringing, but i've only seen fantranslations
and not the actual manga, so there may be visual clues i missed..
Scott Schimmel
a@s.d wrote:
: what about 'doki'? What's that?
: My best guess is a telephone ringing, but i've only seen fantranslations
: and not the actual manga, so there may be visual clues i missed..
I've usually seen it used as a "pounding heart" effect.
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Doug Jacobs
a@s.d wrote:
: what about 'doki'? What's that?
: My best guess is a telephone ringing, but i've only seen fantranslations
: and not the actual manga, so there may be visual clues i missed..
Doki is the sound of one's heart beating hard - usually due to some romantic
or sexual situation.
Example:
Character: "wow, this cute girl wants me to kiss her..."
FX: doki doki doki doki
The only sound FX I can rcall for a phone ringining is "Te-rururu" from
Video Girl Ai. Yeah, it sounds weird, but phones in Japan don't "ring"
they sort of sound...er...like "te-rurururu" ;)
Time Lady
;Doug Jacobs wrote:
;>
Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
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Scott Schimmel
Time Lady wrote:
: Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
Sticking your tongue out, often accompanied by pulling one eyelid
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Kouma Ryodachi
Time Lady wrote on Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:27:38 -0700:
>
<snip>
> Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
>
"Beeda" is pulling down one eyelid and sticking your tongue out at
someone.
mar...@gwis.com
On 9 Jul 1997 14:57:03 GMT, whu...@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang)
wrote:
>Actually, "piku" is a sound effect.
>In it's most generic form, it's the sound of a sudden, but small
>movement. It's usually used for twitching and muscle spasms,
>such as when a character has just been hit by a large jolt of
>electricity and is twitching on the ground.
>
>This doesn't look like the same "piku" in your videogame. Perhaps
>he's just yelling a diminutive form of his name?
Piku in Korean means something similar to "Get out"... as in "Get out
of my room". It would probably be more accurately spelled bbikyuh.
Then again, anime really isn't Korean, is it? Then again, Korean and
Japanese are similar in many aspects.
Hmm...
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I believe that's the metric prefix meaning one trillionth part of a
unit.
Slayer Moon
Arnold Kim
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 mar...@gwis.com wrote:
> On 9 Jul 1997 14:57:03 GMT, whu...@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang)
> wrote:
>
>
> >Actually, "piku" is a sound effect.
> >In it's most generic form, it's the sound of a sudden, but small
> >movement. It's usually used for twitching and muscle spasms,
> >such as when a character has just been hit by a large jolt of
> >electricity and is twitching on the ground.
> >
> >This doesn't look like the same "piku" in your videogame. Perhaps
> >he's just yelling a diminutive form of his name?
>
>
> Piku in Korean means something similar to "Get out"... as in "Get out
> of my room". It would probably be more accurately spelled bbikyuh.
> Then again, anime really isn't Korean, is it? Then again, Korean and
> Japanese are similar in many aspects.
> Hmm...
Yes, roots of words and grammar are very similar between them. Many words
wit the same meaning have the same spellings in Kanji/Hanja.
Hentai - Byun tae
Baka - Babo
Henshin (change) - Byunshin
Oyakusoku (promise) - yahksok
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In article <33C888...@csupomona.edu>, Slayer Moon <hdel...@csupomona.edu> writes:
|> I believe that's the metric prefix meaning one trillionth part of a
|> unit.
No, that`s "pico"...
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Slayer Moon wrote:
> I believe that's the metric prefix meaning one trillionth part of a
> unit.
No, that's "pico". Piku is a sound effect that represents blinking.
Wei-Hwa Huang
dja...@tsoft.net (Doug Jacobs) writes:
>a@s.d wrote:
>: what about 'doki'? What's that?
>: My best guess is a telephone ringing, but i've only seen fantranslations
>: and not the actual manga, so there may be visual clues i missed..
>Doki is the sound of one's heart beating hard - usually due to some romantic
>or sexual situation.
>Example:
>Character: "wow, this cute girl wants me to kiss her..."
>FX: doki doki doki doki
Actually, it comes from the word "toki", meaning heartbeat. But the
consonant is usually softened when elided, so it should be:
"tokidokidokidoki..."
It often goes with "waku", which is the sound you make when you're
expectant (as in, "Oh boy oh boy, I can't wait!"):
"Toki-doki! Waku-waku!"
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Chris Mattern
Kouma Ryodachi wrote:
>
> Time Lady wrote on Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:27:38 -0700:
> >
> <snip>
> > Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
> >
> That's the easiest one to answer.
>
> "Beeda" is pulling down one eyelid and sticking your tongue out at
> someone.
>
Chris Mattern
Thomas Chan
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:23:59 -0400, Arnold Kim <arn...@umich.edu> wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 mar...@gwis.com wrote:
>> Piku in Korean means something similar to "Get out"... as in "Get out
>> of my room". It would probably be more accurately spelled bbikyuh.
>> Then again, anime really isn't Korean, is it? Then again, Korean and
>> Japanese are similar in many aspects.
>> Hmm...
>
>Yes, roots of words and grammar are very similar between them. Many words
>wit the same meaning have the same spellings in Kanji/Hanja.
>
>Hentai - Byun tae
>Baka - Babo
>Henshin (change) - Byunshin
>Oyakusoku (promise) - yahksok
This is all plain misleading, because these are all loanwords from
Chinese. For that matter, it's no surprise that the appearance and
meanings of kanji and hanja are similar, because they're also borrowed
from Chinese.
Thomas Chan
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On 14 Jul 1997, Michael Borgwardt wrote:
>
> In article <33C888...@csupomona.edu>, Slayer Moon <hdel...@csupomona.edu> writes:
> |> I believe that's the metric prefix meaning one trillionth part of a
> |> unit.
>
> No, that`s "pico"...
>
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Time Lady <sail...@swbell.net> wrote:
>;Doug Jacobs wrote:
>;>
>;> a@s.d wrote:
>;> : what about 'doki'? What's that?
>;>
>;> : My best guess is a telephone ringing, but i've only seen
>;fantranslations
>;> : and not the actual manga, so there may be visual clues i missed..
>;;>
>;> Doki is the sound of one's heart beating hard - usually due to some
>;romantic
>;> or sexual situation.
>;>
>;> Example:
>;>
>;> Character: "wow, this cute girl wants me to kiss her..."
>;> FX: doki doki doki doki
>;>
>;> The only sound FX I can rcall for a phone ringining is "Te-rururu"
>;from
>;> Video Girl Ai. Yeah, it sounds weird, but phones in Japan don't
>;"ring"
>;> they sort of sound...er...like "te-rurururu" ;)
>Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
Isn't it a Japanese version of a razz-berry?
If ya really wanna know, watch OMG. Pay attention to Skuld.
> - Bet you guys thought I'd never get a sig down to 4 lines...
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pdm falls over from shock.
Skuld "Beeeda" /Skuld
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(paradoxymoron) wrote:
>Time Lady <sail...@swbell.net> wrote:
>
>>;Doug Jacobs wrote:
>>;>
>>;> a@s.d wrote:
>>;> : what about 'doki'? What's that?
>
>>Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
>
>Isn't it a Japanese version of a razz-berry?
I guess that's a way of putting it. The full action is to pull down a
single eyelid and then to stick your tongue out. Often though the
step concerning the eyelid is drop and only the tongue action is used.
Most of the time a "beee" sound is emited from the mouth. I've never
actually bothered to listen for the "da" part, but I do recall hearing
it in Yawara at one point. Attempts to replicate this action myself
came up with only the "bee" sound. Therefore it is my conclusion that
a professional with years of practice is required for a proper "beeda"
>
>If ya really wanna know, watch OMG. Pay attention to Skuld.
Hai!
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Sir Ryoga
> >> Piku in Korean means something similar to "Get out"... as in "Get out
> >> of my room". It would probably be more accurately spelled bbikyuh.
> >> Then again, anime really isn't Korean, is it? Then again, Korean and
> >> Japanese are similar in many aspects.
> This is all plain misleading, because these are all loanwords from
> Chinese. For that matter, it's no surprise that the appearance and
> meanings of kanji and hanja are similar, because they're also borrowed
> from Chinese.
Be that as it may, to the best of my knowledge, "piku" in Japanese
has no intrinsic meaning; it is a sound effect, and therefore written in
katakana (the syllable alphabet used for onamatpiea or however its
spelled as well as borrowed words and a few other things). "Piku" is the
sound of someone blinking, and the fact that Japanese associate this
with a certain kind of sound is very evident in certain animes, where
characters actually do make noise when they blink (of course, having
such honkin' big eyes could have something to do with it as well... 8)
Slayer Moon
Kouma Ryodachi wrote:
> >
> > Time Lady wrote on Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:27:38 -0700:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > >
> >
> > "Beeda" is pulling down one eyelid and sticking your tongue out at
> > someone.
> >
> In other words, the anime version of a Bronx cheer.
>
> Chris Mattern
I always thought "Beeda" was a low sink commonly found in Europe for washing your butt.
Slayer Moon
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Slayer Moon
paradoxymoron wrote:
>
> Time Lady <sail...@swbell.net> wrote:
>
> >;Doug Jacobs wrote:
> >;>
> >;> a@s.d wrote:
> >;> : what about 'doki'? What's that?
I think "doki" is a description of how you look when you carry too many pens in your shirt
pocket.
> > - Bet you guys thought I'd never get a sig down to 4 lines...
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>
> pdm falls over from shock.
>
> Skuld "Beeeda" /Skuld
>
> Ha! I don't even have a .sig! Beat that!
Slayer Moon says: Sorry! I couldn't resist. Tee-hee.
Michael Borgwardt
In article <33EFDD...@csupomona.edu>, Slayer Moon <hdel...@csupomona.edu> writes:
|> > > >
|> > > <snip>
|> > > > Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
|> > > >
|> > > That's the easiest one to answer.
|> > >
|> > > "Beeda" is pulling down one eyelid and sticking your tongue out at
|> > > someone.
|> > >
|> > In other words, the anime version of a Bronx cheer.
|> >
|>
|> I always thought "Beeda" was a low sink commonly found in Europe for washing your butt.
No, that`s a "bidet" (pronounced bee-deh).
Wei-Hwa Huang
Slayer Moon <hdel...@csupomona.edu> writes:
>Kouma Ryodachi wrote:
>> > Time Lady wrote on Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:27:38 -0700:
>> > > Next question... what does BEEDA mean?
>> > That's the easiest one to answer.
>> > "Beeda" is pulling down one eyelid and sticking your tongue out at
>> > someone.
>> In other words, the anime version of a Bronx cheer.
>>
>I always thought "Beeda" was a low sink commonly found in Europe for washing your butt.
Japanese translation is sinking to new lows...
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> I've seen the word 'piku' in posts on this group, but I haven't really
> heard it in Anime, and one character in a videogame (Picky) (Fighting
> Vipers, Fighter's Megamix) yells it a LOT, usually when he's about to
> whack somebody with his skateboard. I've got a Japanese-English
> dictionary but 'piku' isn't listed. I assume it's not a very nice thing
> to say to someone, given the context I've seen it used in, as well as the
> fact that my 'Living Language' Dictionary doesn't cover it.
>
> eppur si muove... 'and yet it does move'... Galileo,
> after recanting his assertion of the Earth's motion.