No.229Gen 2 (Johto)
Houndoom in Japanese
ヘルガー
Herugā
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ヘhe
ルru
ガga
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
Identifiable by its eerie howls, people a long time ago thought it was the grim reaper and feared it.不気味な遠吠えで識別できるため、昔の人々は死神と勘違いし、恐れていた。
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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