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Wo-Chien may be modeled after the {{wp|decollate snail}}, predatory land snails native to the Mediterranean whose shells are blunt and conical. Wo-Chien's shell is constructed from {{wp|Bamboo and wooden slips|slips}}, narrow strips of bamboo or wood used as writing media in China prior to the introduction of paper. Its entry | Wo-Chien may be modeled after the {{wp|decollate snail}}, predatory land snails native to the Mediterranean whose shells are blunt and conical. Wo-Chien's shell is constructed from {{wp|Bamboo and wooden slips|slips}}, narrow strips of bamboo or wood used as writing media in China prior to the introduction of paper. Its Pokédex entry in Scarlet may be a reference to the idiom 罄竹難書 / 罄竹难书 ''qìng zhú nán shū'', referring to sins that have become innumerable that it had become difficult to record them all in the bamboo slips. | ||
Wo-Chien's National Pokédex number and the fact that its body is composed out of a medium for writing may allude to ''{{wp|One Thousand and One Nights}}'', a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales and stories. One of the stories in ''One Thousand and One Nights'', namely ''{{wp|Aladdin}}'', opens in China. | Wo-Chien's National Pokédex number and the fact that its body is composed out of a medium for writing may allude to ''{{wp|One Thousand and One Nights}}'', a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales and stories. One of the stories in ''One Thousand and One Nights'', namely ''{{wp|Aladdin}}'', opens in China. | ||
