No.734Gen 7 (Alola)
Yungoos in Japanese
ヤングース
Yangūsu
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
ヤya
ンn
グgu
ーlong vowel
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 “ヤングース” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Although it will eat anything, it prefers fresh living things, so it marches down streets in search of prey.何でも食べるが新鮮な生き物を好む。獲物を求めて街を練り歩く。
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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