No.163Gen 2 (Johto)
Hoothoot in Japanese
ホーホー
Hōhō
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ホho
ーlong vowel
ホho
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 4 characters above and you can read “ホーホー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
It begins to hoot at the same time every day. Some Trainers use them in place of clocks.毎日同じ時間にホーホーと鳴き始める。トレーナーの中には時計の代わりに使う人もいる。
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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