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I'm reading through this one story where it takes place in the feudal era of
Japan. Two men are travelling through a forest and carrying a secret letter.
An army of female ninja try to sneak up on them. But one of the men can smell
them, so he closes his eyes and concentrates. Detecting the location one of
them, he throws his sword like an arrow, and hits her. Then he readies himself
for the rest of them.

At that point, the narration says “どしゅっ!” I'm guessing that this is an
interjection of some sort. I tried to look it up, but it doesn't seem to be
listed in the dictionaries. There are websites featuring it, but they don't
have any explanations for it in Japanese or any other language.

Does anyone know what it means?
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What does どしゅっ mean?
Judging from the context, 「どしゅっ」 should be the onomatopoeia for the sound of a
knife or sword "properly" penetrating one's body.

The more commonly-used variants would be 「どすっ」 and 「ぶすっ」.

For all of those, the pitch accent is placed on the **second** syllable.
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