No.547Gen 5 (Unova)
Whimsicott in Japanese
エルフーン
Erufūn
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
エe
ルru
フfu
ーlong vowel
ンn
💡 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
As long as this Pokémon bathes in sunlight, its cotton keeps growing. If too much cotton fluff builds up, Whimsicott tears it off and scatters it.太陽を浴びる限り綿は成長し続けます。増えすぎると自分で引きちぎって散らします。
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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