No.065Gen 1 (Kanto)
Alakazam in Japanese
フーディン
Fūdin
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
フfu
ーlong vowel
ディdi
ンn
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
💡 A big kana followed by a small ャ ュ ョ or ァ ィ ゥ ェ ォ is read together as one sound.
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
The longer Alakazam lives, the larger and heavier its head becomes. Our tests have shown that the strength of its psychic powers correlates positively to the weight of its head.フーディンは長生きするほど頭が大きく重くなる。我々の実験では、超能力の強さは頭の重さと正の相関関係にあることが分かった。
The Japanese text is a translation of the English entry, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana. Try to spot the katakana words!
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