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にっこり

adverbonomatopoeia

Meanings

1smile sweetly
2smile
3grin
4sweetly (smiling)
5broadly (grinning)

Example sentence

老婆はほっと息をついてにっこり笑った。

The old woman smiled with a sigh of relief.

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