Visualization of Japanese onomatopoeia

―Visualization of onomatopoeia on weather by pattern―

Abstract

Onomatopoeia has effect of prompting greater understanding to an explanation when added to it. In addition, all users of the same language seem to have at least similar impressions to various onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia in Japanese are diverse and frequently used in day to day life, and their range of expression is very wide. In this study, the impressions of onomatopoeia in Japanese language are visualized as patterns, and an experience-based visualization system using onomatopoeia is proposed. It is deemed that from this, a piece of work would become a word, providing a unified impression and thus turns into a new communication device. Consequently, an expression that succeeded the impression of an onomatopoeia can be possible and this is considered to be a new word.