No.014Gen 1 (Kanto)
Kakuna in Japanese
コクーン
Kokūn
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コko
クku
ーlong vowel
ンn
💡 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
Able to move only slightly. When endangered, it may stick out its stinger and poison its enemy.わずかにしか動けない。危険を感じると毒針を突き出して敵を毒殺する。
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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