In case an isolated kanji character has a long reading-for example 〜に携わる (where 携 reads たずさ, tazusa)-the furigana may instead spill over into the space next to the neighboring kana characters, without condensing or changing spacing. The latter method is more common, especially since some words in Japanese have unique pronunciations ( jukujikun) that are not related to readings of any of the characters the word is written with.įurigana fonts are generally sized so that two kana characters fit naturally over one kanji when more kana are required, this is resolved either by adjusting the furigana by using a condensed font (narrowing the kana), or by adjusting the kanji by intercharacter spacing (adding spaces around the kanji). These examples spell the word kanji, which is made up of two kanji characters: 漢 ( kan, written in hiragana as かん) and 字 ( ji, written in hiragana as じ).įurigana may be added by character, in which case the furigana character(s) that correspond to a kanji are centered over that kanji or by word or phrase, in which case the entire furigana text is centered over several kanji characters, even if the kanji do not represent equal shares of the kana needed to write them.
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