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Categorized | Japanese (日本語)

Ruby/Phonetic Guides/Furigana/振り仮名 [ふりがな]

Posted on 28 April 2008 by Erwin

FULIGANA” is the notation on japanese characters that includes the Hiragana script next to the chinese character so the reader will be aware of the reading method.

For example:
かん じ
漢 字

If you want to write FULIGANA on Mac OS X, the fastest route is to download NeoOffice for Mac OS X, open a new document, and choose “Format” / “Asian phonetic guide…”.

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In addition to NeoOffice, other Furigana support includes:

  • Microsoft Word (though I’m not sure how to use it…)
  • Egword – which has been discontinued as of Jan 2008
  • Adobe Indesign – Japanese version
  • LightWayText is rumored to be “worth trying”, though I haven’t yet…
  • NOTE: iWork Pages does not support Furigana at this time

It would be great if I could use this editor… But it seems to no longer be available.


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References:
See: http://liliy.net/blog/?p=30
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana
See: http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2006/11/which-languages-does-pages-support.html
See: http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingJapanese.html
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana

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