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Manchus had a wide variety of arrows. Every one with its own purpose. An arrow for shooting rabbits, one for shooting human, another for birds, etc. Here their sounds in the first Manchu-Manchu thesaurus.

The Manchu vocabulary is larded with ideophones. Ideophones are a "kind of paintings", says Mark Dingemanse.  Words that depict something; a sound, a scent, a feeling, a texture, physical appearance  Listen to the sounds of the Manchu arrow.

 

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Archery