Mention Chinese #63
Mention Chinese #63
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| In Chinese, ruby annotations such as Pinyin or Bopomofo serve | ||
| a similar phonetic purpose and can be treated in the same way |
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don't think we should note in such detail, but one major difference I believe is tone.
It might be align two words - similar and the same, into similar??? (not sure, but I really wonder how we could refer dialect as ruby...
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Good point. Since Pinyin and Bopomofo already indicate tone — unlike Japanese kana — I think we don’t need to go into more detail here.
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Does the last para of Furigana, background apply to the Japanese language only? In other words, is it common to repeat the same ruby annotation for every occurrence of the same base in China or Taiwan?
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I now think that we should clearly separate Japanese ruby (2.1) and Chinese ruby (2.2). Let me try a complete rewrite. |
Fixes #39
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