No.424Gen 4 (Sinnoh)
Ambipom in Japanese
エテボース
Etebōsu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
エe
テte
ボbo
ーlong vowel
スsu
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
To affirm their kinship, members of this species will form a ring by linking their newly doubled tails together. On rare occasions, humans have been accepted into such rings.尾を繋いで輪を作り、血縁関係を確認します。まれに人間が輪に受け入れられることもあります。
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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