No.385Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Jirachi in Japanese
ジラーチ
Jirāchi
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ジji
ラra
ーlong vowel
チchi
💡 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
It’s believed that when this Pokémon wakes from its 1,000-year slumber, it will grant any wishes written on the notes attached to its head.千年の眠りから目覚めると、頭の短冊に書かれた願いを叶えると言われています。
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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