No.122Gen 1 (Kanto)
Mr. Mime in Japanese
バリヤード
Bariyādo
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
バba
リri
ヤya
ーlong vowel
ドdo
💡 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
The story goes that a wall created using pantomime, which is so convincing it can make people believe it, actually appears.人を信じこませるのがうまい。パントマイムで作った壁が本当に現れるという。
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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