characters to subtitle sounds

[JonasL]

Hello,

I've been trying to look for a list of characters that are used in subtitles to make Chinese viewers able to 'read' the sound.

I have not found any lists until now, maybe any of you do, or if not; why not make one here?

The ones I kow:

嘻嘻嘻 = hihihi

哈哈哈 = hahaha

呵呵呵 = hehehe

口+王 = waf ( sound a dog makes, "wang wang wang" in Chinese )

哦 = suddenly understanding something (?)

啊 = different meanings ( like 好啊! = happy way of saying "GOOD!" or 啊, 你是.. )

哗哗哗 = same as hehehe

I think there are plenty of other characters that represent sounds but I don't know them.

[JonasL]

oh, my girlfriend ( she's Chinese ) also uses 恩 ( en1 ) she says it without opening her mouth so it sounds more like English people would say "uhu" without opening their mouth and just kind of humming it, except en1 sounds shorter.

she says it means "yes" or "ok"

and that every chinese knows this means he or she agrees

sounds kind of weird to me, any opinions about this?

[amego]

hello JonasL, well actually there are tons more, like

哟 yo

哇 wah

嘢 yea

and so on...just find a word with the closest sound that you want to convey, and add a 口(this is know as 口子旁kou3 zi4 pang2 "mouth radical"，and you are done hehe...but some of these words cant be found in the IME, but when you write, i guess its not wrong to "invent" this kind of "new words".

嗯 is probably the word to show "en", "un", "uh", all others to say yep. Singaporeans say "ahuh".

[trevelyan]

Partial list here. Feel free to tag any missing entries as ONOMAT:

http://www.adsotrans.com/adso/uniedit.pl?word=&show_flag=on&search_english=&show_english=on&search_flag=ONOMAT&show_pinyin=on&search_pinyin=

[JonasL]

If I'm going to invent words, chinese people won't be able to understand them.

for example: 哦 can be interpreted as :

o4, sound of sudden understanding

o2, sound of amazement or sound of "o2, make my day son of a ... woodpecker"

o3, sound people with a stomach ache make

o1, sound made when being kicked in the 'zone'

I'm sure there are many other ways to interpret just 1 letter, or are they fixed?

do they have a fixed tone and a fixed meaning?

thanks for the posts Amego & Trevelyan,

appreciate it.