No.116Gen 1 (Kanto)
Horsea in Japanese
タッツー
Tattsū
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
タta
ッdouble next
ツtsu
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).
💡 The small ッ doubles the next consonant, making a tiny pause (like the "tt" in "Pikka").
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
They swim with dance-like motions and cause whirlpools to form. Horsea compete to see which of them can generate the biggest whirlpool.踊るような動きで泳ぎ、渦潮を起こす。タッツーたちは、誰が一番大きな渦潮を起こせるかを競い合う。
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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