No.369Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Relicanth in Japanese
ジーランス
Jīransu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ジji
ーlong vowel
ラra
ンn
スsu
💡 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
This Pokémon was discovered during deep-sea exploration. Its appearance hasn’t changed in 100,000,000 years, so it’s called a living fossil.深海探査で発見され、1億年姿が変わらないため“生きた化石”と呼ばれます。
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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