Talk:Furigana

message: I know that the kanji can encompass more than one syllable, so even in syllabic vocal music it's one kanji to many notes; so how are the corresponding furigana used in syllable alignment? The very few scores that I have seen on the Internet change the whole thing into hiragana. If there are furigana, then will the kanji simply continue with a large space or underscore while the furigana fit the music above? Are there any examples of this anywhere? Michael Ly (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Use in Music

message: We could do with something like this in English, e.g. 
:our software creates new paradigms in e-Solutions/ɪz ə ləʊd əv juːsləs dʒʌŋk/
130.246.132.26 08:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually think that would confuse a lot more than help. Michiganotaku 23:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why doesn't English... 

message: What's the difference between furigana and ruby characters?  —Tamfang 19:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say a ruby character is *any* character intended to help with the reading of *any* script (including latin characters), whereas furigana has a more narrow meaning - i.e. that of *kana* used to help with the reading Chinese characters. In other words, any furigana is also a ruby character, but not all ruby characters are also furigana. TomorrowTime 22:26, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There should be a prominent link to Ruby character. Many general questions (eg on how to mark them up in HTML) are answered there.87.162.29.223 (talk) 05:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ruby 

message: Could I put down the kanji for dog, write "cat" above it, and force people to pronounce it as cat, if I so chose? Or is there an unspoken rule that the words have to have some related meaning? Or is there more of a limitation than that for force-pronunciation?
:You couldn't "force" people to do anything. At most, you could trick some people into saying the wrong thing. It's just a pronunciation hint for people who don't know the kanji. — Gwalla | Talk 23:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly your confusion comes from the fact that, even though in general, furigana are used to help those who cannot pronounce a kanji they do not know, it is often used in advertising and manga to indicate that a word should be prounounced differently in their context than it usually is pronounced.  For instance, you could write the character for "dog," write furigana for the pronunciation of "cat" above it, and people would know to pronounce it like that when in the context of what you have written. ... if that helps--Sotaru 23:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I very not get it. 

message: Are Furigana supported by major writing packages? -Thenickdude 03:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are supported at least by OpenOffice and the Japanese version of MS Office.See the related thread in the forum: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=35517 .  4l31st3r (talk) 21:51, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Software support 

message: Hi there! I'd like to add a link to a free (google ads are supposed to pay for the server) little web application that serves as a convenient reading aid for Japanese text.
www.furiganizer.com
Its merits are
* beautiful, printable, and editable furigana for any Japanese text
* when logged in, it remembers the kanji-readings you already know and omits them in the future
* you can look up the meaning of a word comfortably in Jim Breen's edict
I'm new to Wikipedia; so, I'd like to ask whether it's ok to add a link with a short description. Thanks a million!
--MegaWauWau (talk) 08:15, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome to Wikipedia. It's OK. Happy editing! Oda Mari (talk) 15:10, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, not it's not okay, it's advertising that is not permissible under WP:SPAM or WP:EL. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 09:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Link

message: The lead section of this article is competely useless to anyone who does not already understand Japanese and its quirks.  No rationale is given at all. The average reader has no idea how these character could possibly aid in pronunciation of other characters, nor why anyone who knows Japanese already would need any such aid. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 09:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead is hosed

message: In the table at the beginning with the furigana printed over the horizontal text, the text is printed left to right. I think Japanese is written right to left! Is there a reason for this? LokiClock (talk) 17:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid you are wrong. I am Japanese and we write left to right. Historically, there was a right to left writing though, but not today. Oda Mari (talk) 17:47, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text direction error 

message: Are Furigana really helpful? Because in Chinese, knowing how something is pronounced doesn't mean that you understand the meaning. Since Japanese have merged many sounds from Chinese, it could be even more difficult in Japanese. The Chinese somehow don't need something like Furigana, they just look it up in a dictionary. Why is it like that? --2.245.192.127 (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: People might know how to say a word, but they might not know the kanji characters if they are unusual. 109.153.225.97 (talk) 20:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The same kanji mignt be pronounced in several different ways, depending on in which period in time it was borrowed from Chinese, or if it's been imported for its meaning and implanted on a Japanese word, and thus pronounced in one or another Japanese way. In Chinese, I think a character regularly has one specific pronunciation... 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 10:08, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese 

message: "Prewar, youths would have been almost illiterate if it was not for furigana.[2]"
Which war, please?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.158.165 (talk) 04:49, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prewar? 

message: Okurigana should not be included in this article, as it is not a reading aid, but a part of the language. Shidouuu (talk) 23:22, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Okurigana