No.257Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Blaziken in Japanese
バシャーモ
Bashāmo
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
バba
シャsha
ーlong vowel
モmo
💡 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.
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 4 characters above and you can read “バシャーモ” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Blaziken has incredibly strong legs—it can easily clear a 30-story building in one leap. This Pokémon’s blazing punches leave its foes scorched and blackened.バシャーモは驚異的な脚力を持っており、30階建てのビルを一跳びで飛び越えることができます。このポケモンの燃えるようなパンチは、敵を焦がし、黒焦げにします。
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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