No.024Gen 1 (Kanto)
Arbok in Japanese
アーボック
Ābokku
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
アa
ーlong vowel
ボbo
ッdouble next
クku
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
💡 The small ッ doubles the next consonant, making a tiny pause (like the "tt" in "Pikka").
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 5 characters above and you can read “アーボック” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
The frightening patterns on its belly have been studied. Six variations have been confirmed.腹部の恐ろしい模様は研究されている。6種類の変異が確認されている。
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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