No.514Gen 5 (Unova)
Simisear in Japanese
バオッキー
Baokkī
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
バba
オo
ッdouble next
キki
ーlong vowel
💡 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 “バオッキー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
When it gets excited, embers rise from its head and tail and it gets hot. For some reason, it loves sweets.興奮すると頭と尻尾から燃えかすが飛び散り熱くなります。甘いものが大好きです。
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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