No.477Gen 4 (Sinnoh)
Dusknoir in Japanese
ヨノワール
Yonowāru
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ヨyo
ノno
ワwa
ーlong vowel
ルru
💡 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
Comes to those whose lives have come to an end and escorts their souls to the afterlife. Known to mistakenly take the souls of those who yet have life left in them, albeit rarely.死者の魂をあの世へ導くと言われます。まれに生者の魂を誤って奪うこともあります。
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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