No.529Gen 5 (Unova)
Drilbur in Japanese
モグリュー
Moguryū
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
モmo
グgu
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 “モグリュー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
It’s a digger, using its claws to burrow through the ground. It causes damage to vegetable crops, so many farmers have little love for it.爪で地面を掘る掘削機のようなポケモン。畑を荒らすため農家には嫌われがちです。
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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