Category:Japanese figures of speech

Japanese terms whose interpretation is not strictly literal, but are used in figurative ways or for special effect.

• Category:Japanese euphemisms: Japanese terms that indirectly refer to something unpleasant or controversial.
• Category:Japanese hyperboles: Japanese terms used as exaggerations for emphasis, rather than being taken literally.
• Category:Japanese idioms: Japanese phrases understood by subjective, as opposed to literal meanings.
• Category:Japanese litotes: Japanese litotical expressions or terms commonly used in litotes (stating something by denying its opposite).
• Category:Japanese proverbs: Japanese phrases popularly known as representations of common sense.
• Category:Japanese sarcastic terms: Japanese terms that are used sarcastically.
• Category:Japanese synecdoches: Japanese figures of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole pars pro toto, or vice versa totum pro parte.