No.056Gen 1 (Kanto)
Mankey in Japanese
マンキー
Mankī
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マma
ンn
キki
ーlong vowel
💡 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
An agile Pokémon that lives in trees. It angers easily and will not hesitate to attack anything.木に住む俊敏なポケモン。怒りっぽく、何にでも躊躇なく攻撃する。
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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