No.628Gen 5 (Unova)
Braviary in Japanese
ウォーグル
Wōguru
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ウォwo
ーlong vowel
グgu
ルru
💡 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 “ウォーグル” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Screaming a bloodcurdling battle cry, this huge and ferocious bird Pokémon goes out on the hunt. It blasts lakes with shock waves, then scoops up any prey that float to the water's surface.雄叫びを上げながら狩りに出る。湖に衝撃波を放ち、水面の獲物をすくい上げる。
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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