furigana

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

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.

• ruby character, rubi character

• Garifuna, Garífuna, fungaria

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁi.ɡa.na/

furigana m (plural furigana or furiganas)

1. furigana

furigana

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふりがな