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flick; flicking motion (on a touchscreen)
A quick sliding gesture on a touchscreen, especially the input method used in Japanese smartphone keyboards where the user slides from a base kana in one of four directions to select related kana.
From English "flick". In Japan, most commonly refers to フリック入力, the standard Japanese smartphone keyboard input method.
Common collocations
Flick input
Japanese smartphone keyboards display あ、か、さ、た、な、は、ま、や、ら、わ as base keys. Flicking left, up, right, or down from a base selects い、う、え、お (and equivalent rows for other consonants).