Glossary of "Ruby Annotation"

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base text

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

Run of text that has a ruby text associated with it.

bopomofo

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

37 characters and 4 tone marks used as phonetics in Chinese, especially standard Mandarin.

complex ruby markup

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

In this specification: Ruby markup that allows association of two ruby texts with a single base text as well as fine-grained associations between parts of the ruby texts and the base text .

group ruby

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

In Japanese typography: Ruby text associated with more than one character of the base text.

hiragana

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

Japanese syllabic script, or character of that script. Rounded and cursive in appearance. Subset of the Japanese writing system, used together with kanji and katakana. In recent times, mostly used to write Japanese words when kanji are not available or appropriate, and word endings and particles.

ideograph

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

A character that is used to represent an idea, word, or word component, in contrast to a character from an alphabetic or syllabic script. The most well-known ideographic script is used (with some variation) in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea,...).

kana

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

Collective term for hiragana and katakana.

kanji

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

Japanese term for ideographs; ideographs used in Japanese. Subset of the Japanese writing system, used together with hiragana and katakana.

katakana

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

Japanese syllabic script, or character of that script. Angular in appearance. Subset of the Japanese writing system, used together with kanji and hiragana. In recent times, mainly used to write foreign words.

monoruby

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

In Japanese typography: Ruby associated with a single character of the base text.

reading

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

For ideographs: Technical term; indication of possible pronunciation. Different from pronunciation in various respects: script used may not be fully phonetic; actual pronunciation is speaker-dependent; pronunciation may not be realized when reading a text silently. In Chinese or Korean, some ideographs have several readings. In Japanese, most ideographs have at least two readings, and some have a lot more. Readings also may depend on context.

ruby text

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

Run of text that appears in the immediate vicinity of another run of text (called "ruby base" ) and serves as an annotation or a pronunciation guide associated with the base.

simple ruby markup

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31)

In this specification: Ruby markup that associates a single ruby text with a single ruby base , optionally providing some delimiters such as parentheses for fallback.

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