No.433Gen 4 (Sinnoh)
Chingling in Japanese
リーシャン
Rīshan
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
リri
ーlong vowel
シャsha
ンn
💡 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 “リーシャン” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
This Pokémon gave me an excruciating headache when it seemingly cried out without making a sound. Perhaps there are some sounds that the human ear is simply incapable of hearing.音もなく鳴いているようで、強烈な頭痛を引き起こすことがあります。人間には聞こえない音を発しているのでしょう。
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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