East Asian typography

is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. It is one type of ruby text. Furigana is also known as and in Japanese. In modern Japanese, it is usually used to gloss rare kanji, to clarify rare, nonstandard or ambiguous kanji readings, or in children's or learners' materials. Before the post-World War II script reforms, it was more widespread.

small characters placed aside a Chinese or Japanese characters to precise their pronunciation or to transliterate them into another script

character denoting the repetition of the previous syllable or more within a word, possibly with a implicit or explicit phonologic modification

classification of East Asian (CJKV) characters in a computer terminal font; for the Unicode block, use Q3513222

typeface styled to mimic the brush strokes used in Chinese characters; often used to convey a sense of Orientalism; frequently viewed as culturally insensitive or offensive

marking in East Asian writing systems for word emphasis

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