No.145Gen 1 (Kanto)
Zapdos in Japanese
サンダー
Sandā
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
サsa
ンn
ダda
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 4 characters above and you can read “サンダー” yourself!
📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
Zapdos is a legendary bird Pokémon. It’s said that when Zapdos rubs its feathers together, lightning will fall immediately after.サンダーは伝説の鳥ポケモンである。サンダーが羽をこすり合わせると、すぐに雷が落ちると言われています。
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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