No.497Gen 5 (Unova)
Serperior in Japanese
ジャローダ
Jarōda
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ジャja
ロro
ーlong vowel
ダda
💡 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 “ジャローダ” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
It can stop its opponents’ movements with just a glare. It takes in solar energy and boosts it internally.睨むだけで相手を動けなくする。太陽エネルギーを取り込み力を高めます。
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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