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🐧 TRENDING · 2026-09-03

番号は 四十四、名前は 「ヨヨ」

Same news, rewritten for 6 Japanese school grades — pick your level below. Furigana + translation included.
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🐧 TRENDING 名前 なまえ
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和歌山県わかやまけんの 動物園どうぶつえんに、コウテイペンギンが 十九羽じゅうきゅうわ います。

一羽いちわだけ、まだ 名前なまえが 決きまって いませんでした。

動物園どうぶつえんは 日本中にほんじゅうの 人ひとに 名前なまえを 考かんがえて もらいました。

三万さんまんより 多おおい 名前なまえが 集あつまりました。

この ペンギンの 番号ばんごうは 四十四よんじゅうよんです。

四十四よんじゅうよんは 「よよ」と 読よめるので、名前なまえは 「ヨヨ」に 決きまりました。

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Translation

At a zoo in Wakayama Prefecture there are 19 emperor penguins.

Only one still had no name.

The zoo asked people all over Japan to think of a name.

More than 30,000 names were collected.

This penguin's number is 44.

Because 44 can be read as "yo-yo", the name was decided as "Yoyo".

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