さっぱり

さっぱり · sappari · JLPT N3 · adverb

feeling refreshed

🛁🍋 Sappari sounds like zap-a-reeee: one zap and you feel brand new and clean

さっぱり is a mimetic word (gitaigo) for a clean, light, refreshed feeling, like after a bath. It also describes clean-tasting food. In negative sentences it means not at all: さっぱり分からない means I have no idea.

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