No.485Gen 4 (Sinnoh)
Heatran in Japanese
ヒードラン
Hīdoran
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ヒhi
ーlong vowel
ドdo
ラra
ンn
💡 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
Stories tell of this Pokémon being birthed from the boiling magma within Mount Coronet. Its molten-steel body holds many mysteries.宝冠山のマグマから生まれたという伝承があります。溶けた鋼の体には謎が多い。
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