On the Wall, orcrist posted the following::::For Japanese and other languages with character sets as opposed to alphabets, when people are learning the languages, we start with a phonetic alphabet. This is often written in small letters just above the actual text. These small letters are called "rubies", and for Japanese specifically, the phonetic reading written adjacent to a word is called "furigana". Before the server trouble at the end of 2013, Tatoeba showed furigana (albeit with some errors).Whether it is worth the admins' time to work on re-enabling furigana support is an open question. If there are other high quality free resources that work well in replacement of it, perhaps it is not necessary. Rikaichan works well as long as you are reading everything from within your web browser.
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10 years ago
On the Wall, orcrist posted the following::::For Japanese and other languages with character sets as opposed to alphabets, when people are learning the languages, we start with a phonetic alphabet. This is often written in small letters just above the actual text. These small letters are called "rubies", and for Japanese specifically, the phonetic reading written adjacent to a word is called "furigana". Before the server trouble at the end of 2013, Tatoeba showed furigana (albeit with some errors).Whether it is worth the admins' time to work on re-enabling furigana support is an open question. If there are other high quality free resources that work well in replacement of it, perhaps it is not necessary. Rikaichan works well as long as you are reading everything from within your web browser.