Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Furigana (ふりがな), also called yomigana, are kana printed next to a kanji or other character to indicate its pronunciation. In horizontal text, they are above the character; in vertical text, they are to the right of the character. They are one type of ruby text. 漢 か ん 字 じ or かん じ 漢 字 External Links What is ruby? in Ruby Annotation W3C Recommendation 31 May 2001 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.