No.325Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Spoink in Japanese
バネブー
Banebū
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
バba
ネne
ブbu
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).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Spoink keeps a pearl on top of its head. The pearl functions to amplify this Pokémon’s psychokinetic powers. It is therefore on a constant search for a bigger pearl.頭の上の真珠は念力を増幅します。より大きな真珠を求めて常に探し回っています。
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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