No.149Gen 1 (Kanto)
Dragonite in Japanese
カイリュー
Kairyū
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
カka
イi
リュryu
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 “カイリュー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
This Pokémon is known as the Sea Incarnate. Figureheads that resemble Dragonite decorate the bows of many ships.このポケモンは海の化身として知られています。カイリューに似た船首像は、多くの船の船首を飾っています。
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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