No.092Gen 1 (Kanto)
Gastly in Japanese
ゴース
Gōsu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ゴgo
ーlong vowel
スsu
💡 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
Gaseous and completely impalpable. Also highly dangerous— inhaling part of its poisonous body will cause one to faint instantly.ガス状で全く触知できない。非常に危険で、毒のある体の一部を吸い込むと即座に気絶する。
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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