No.170Gen 2 (Johto)
Chinchou in Japanese
チョンチー
Chonchī
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
チョcho
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チchi
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.
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 4 characters above and you can read “チョンチー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
On the dark ocean floor, its only means of communication is its constantly flashing lights.暗い海底では、絶えず点滅する光だけが唯一のコミュニケーション手段です。
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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