No.294Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Loudred in Japanese
ドゴーム
Dogōmu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ドdo
ゴgo
ーlong vowel
ムmu
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 4 characters above and you can read “ドゴーム” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
The force of this Pokémon’s loud voice isn’t just the sound—it’s also the wave of air pressure that blows opponents away and damages them.大声は音だけでなく、空気圧の波で相手を吹き飛ばしダメージを与えます。
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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