No.572Gen 5 (Unova)
Minccino in Japanese
チラーミィ
Chirāmi
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
チchi
ラra
ーlong vowel
ミィmi
💡 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.
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
They pet each other with their tails as a form of greeting. Of the two, the one whose tail is fluffier is a bit more boastful.尻尾を撫で合って挨拶を交わす。2匹のうち尻尾がふさふさしている方が少し自慢屋だ。
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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