No.672Gen 6 (Kalos)
Skiddo in Japanese
メェークル
Mēkuru
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
メェme
ーlong vowel
クku
ルru
💡 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 “メェークル” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
If it has sunshine and water, it doesn’t need to eat, because it can generate energy from the leaves on its back.日光と水があれば背中の葉からエネルギーを生み出し、食べる必要がない。
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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