No.847Gen 8 (Galar)
Barraskewda in Japanese
カマスジョー
Kamasujō
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
カka
マma
スsu
ジョjo
ーlong vowel
💡 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
It spins its tail fins to propel itself, surging forward at speeds of over 100 knots before ramming prey and spearing into them.尾びれを回転させて推進力を得て、時速100ノット以上で突進し獲物に突き刺す。
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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