furigana

English

Examples
彼(かれ)、私(わたし)のこと何(なに)か言(い)ってました？ Kare, watashi no koto nani ka itte mashita? Did he say anything about me?

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 振り仮名 (furigana, “annotating kana”, literally “assigned phonetic character”).

Noun

furigana (plural furigana)

1. (Japanese typography) Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation.
   • 2014, Insup Taylor, M. Martin Taylor, Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, revised edition, John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 290:

     Furigana are indispensable for some names of people and places whose Kanji are not included among the official Kanji list, and whose sounds can be unusual and even idiosyncratic.

Synonyms

• ruby character, rubi character

Translations

furigana

• Arabic: فُورِيغَانَا f (furigānā), فُورِيغَانَا f (furiḡānā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 振假名 (zh) (zhènjiǎmíng)

• Japanese: 振り仮名 (ja) (ふりがな, furigana), ルビ (ja) (rubi)
• Korean: 후리가나 (hurigana)
• Marathi: फुरिगाना n (furigānā)
• Russian: фурига́на f (furigána), ру́би (ru) m (rúbi)
• Thai: ฟุริงะนะ (fúríngáná)

Anagrams

• Garifuna, Garífuna, fungaria

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁi.ɡa.na/

Noun

furigana m (plural furigana or furiganas)

1. furigana

Japanese

Romanization

furigana

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふりがな