No.797Gen 7 (Alola)
Celesteela in Japanese
テッカグヤ
Tekkaguya
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
テte
ッdouble next
カka
グgu
ヤya
💡 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 “テッカグヤ” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Although it’s alien to this world and a danger here, it’s apparently a common organism in the world where it normally lives.この世界では異質で危険だが、本来の生息地では一般的な生物とされる。
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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