Ruby Character

Ruby Character

Ruby characters (ルビ?) are small, annotative glosses that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing languages with logographic characters such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation. Typically called just ruby or rubi, such annotations are used as pronunciation guides for characters that are likely to be unfamiliar to the reader.

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Famous quotes containing the words ruby and/or character:

    “Its quick silver bell beating, beating
    And down the dark one ruby flare
    Pulsing out red light like an artery,”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)