No.719Gen 6 (Kalos)
Diancie in Japanese
ディアンシー
Dianshī
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ディdi
アa
ンn
シshi
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 5 characters above and you can read “ディアンシー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
It can instantly create many diamonds by compressing the carbon in the air between its hands.両手の間の空気中の炭素を圧縮し、瞬時に大量のダイヤモンドを作り出す。
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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