i find it funny that the unown letters are often compared to hieroglyphs when they are much more similar to runes
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my understanding as someone who cannot read japanese is that this is a translation error, and the original pokédex entry just calls them “ancient characters” and not hieroglyphs specifically
but anyway the fact that each unown letter has a corresponding english verb associated with it (via the Unown Report) screams “rune” to me
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