No.367Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Huntail in Japanese
ハンテール
Hantēru
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ハha
ンn
テte
ーlong vowel
ルru
💡 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
Deep seas are their habitat. According to tradition, when Huntail wash up onshore, something unfortunate will happen.深海に生息し、打ち上がると不吉な出来事の前触れとされています。
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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