- 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)
- 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.