No.150Gen 1 (Kanto)
Mewtwo in Japanese
ミュウツー
Myūtsū
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ミュmyu
ウu
ツtsu
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).
💡 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 “ミュウツー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Its DNA is almost the same as Mew’s. However, its size and disposition are vastly different.そのDNAはミュウとほぼ同じです。しかし、その大きさや性格は大きく異なります。
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 →