No.358Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Chimecho in Japanese
チリーン
Chirīn
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
チchi
リri
ーlong vowel
ンn
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Can emit waves of air powerful enough to knock out prey taller than itself. I hypothesize that it amplifies the faint sound of wind within its body.自分より大きな獲物を倒すほど強い空気の波を放ちます。体内で風の音を増幅していると考えられています。
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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