No.470Gen 4 (Sinnoh)
Leafeon in Japanese
リーフィア
Rīfia
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
リri
ーlong vowel
フィfi
アa
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
💡 A big kana followed by a small ャ ュ ョ or ァ ィ ゥ ェ ォ is read together as one sound.
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 4 characters above and you can read “リーフィア” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Cells similar to those of plants have been found in its fur. Its hard tail can fell a large tree with one stroke, and the tail's sharpness exceeds even that of a sword crafted by a master.毛皮には植物に似た細胞があり、硬い尻尾は大木を一撃で倒すほど鋭い。
The Japanese text is a translation of the English entry, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana. Try to spot the katakana words!
📘 Free katakana lessons with Pokémon →
🎯 Test yourself: Pokémon katakana quiz →