No.106Gen 1 (Kanto)
Hitmonlee in Japanese
サワムラー
Sawamurā
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
サsa
ワwa
ムmu
ラra
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).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
The legs freely contract and stretch. The stretchy legs allow it to hit a distant foe with a rising kick.脚は自由に伸縮する。伸縮自在の脚で、遠くの敵に上昇キックを繰り出すことができる。
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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