No.500Gen 5 (Unova)
Emboar in Japanese
エンブオー
Enbuō
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
エe
ンn
ブbu
オo
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).
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 5 characters above and you can read “エンブオー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
It has mastered fast and powerful fighting moves. It grows a beard of fire.素早く強力な戦闘技を使いこなす。燃えるひげを持ちます。
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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