No.202Gen 2 (Johto)
Wobbuffet in Japanese
ソーナンス
Sōnansu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ソso
ーlong vowel
ナna
ンn
スsu
💡 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 “ソーナンス” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
To keep its pitch-black tail hidden, it lives quietly in the darkness. It is never first to attack.真っ黒な尻尾を隠すため、静かに暗闇に潜んでいます。決して先制攻撃はしない。
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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