No.923Gen 9 (Paldea)
Pawmot in Japanese
パーモット
Pāmotto
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
パpa
ーlong vowel
モmo
ッdouble next
トto
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
💡 The small ッ doubles the next consonant, making a tiny pause (like the "tt" in "Pikka").
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 5 characters above and you can read “パーモット” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
This Pokémon normally is slow to react, but once it enters battle, it will strike down its enemies with lightning-fast movements.普段は反応が鈍いが、戦闘に入ると電光石火の動きで敵を打ち倒す。
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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