No.756Gen 7 (Alola)
Shiinotic in Japanese
マシェード
Mashēdo
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
マma
シェshe
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).
💡 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 “マシェード” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
If you see a light deep in a forest at night, don’t go near. Shiinotic will make you fall fast asleep.夜の森で光を見たら近づいてはいけない。眠らされてしまう。
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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