No.328Gen 3 (Hoenn)
Trapinch in Japanese
ナックラー
Nakkurā
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ナna
ッdouble next
クku
ラra
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 “ナックラー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
It makes an inescapable conical pit and lies in wait at the bottom for prey to come tumbling down.逃れられない円錐形の落とし穴を作り、底で獲物が落ちてくるのを待ちます。
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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