No.811Gen 8 (Galar)
Thwackey in Japanese
バチンキー
Bachinkī
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
バba
チchi
ンn
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).
Japanese Pokémon names are written in katakana, the script used for foreign words and names. Learn the 5 characters above and you can read “バチンキー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
When it’s drumming out rapid beats in battle, it gets so caught up in the rhythm that it won’t even notice that it’s already knocked out its opponent.バトルでリズムを刻むうちに夢中になり、相手を倒したことに気づかないことがある。
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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