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Japanese symbol for “licking”

Romaji: peropero
licking; lapping up

In Japanese, licking is (peropero).

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Meanings

  1. adv, adv-to licking; lapping up
  2. adv, adv-to (eating up) quickly; gobbling up

Written forms: . Readings: .

Other Japanese words for “licking”

WordReadingMeaning
ベロベロ beroberolicking
チュパチュパ chupachupalicking; sucking
なめなめ namenamelicking
べろっと berottolicking; sticking out one's tongue
ペロリ perorilicking; licking up

Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.