No.832Gen 8 (Galar)
Dubwool in Japanese
バイウールー
Baiūrū
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
バba
イi
ウu
ーlong vowel
ルru
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).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Its majestic horns are meant only to impress the opposite gender. They never see use in battle.雄大な角は異性を惹きつけるためのもの。戦闘では使われない。
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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