No.076Gen 1 (Kanto)
Golem in Japanese
ゴローニャ
Gorōnya
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ゴgo
ロro
ーlong vowel
ニャnya
💡 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 “ゴローニャ” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
The rocklike shell is shed each year. The cast-off shell then crumbles, reverting to a mass of soil, which can be spread across fields to promote crop growth.岩のような殻は毎年脱皮します。脱皮した殻は崩れて土塊になり、畑に撒くことで作物の生育を促進します。
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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