different between rubi vs furigana

English

Noun

rubi

1. Alternative form of ruby (“pronunciation guide for Chinese or Japanese characters”)
   • 2010, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road (page 170)

     "Shinjuku Sketch" demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.

   • 2012, Nana Sato-Rossberg, ?Judy Wakabayashi, Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context (page 158)

     Bespoke combinations of kanji can also be created, because the intended phonetic and semantic readings can be supplied by the rubi glosses.

Anagrams

• URBI

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ubi

Verb

rubi

1. second-person singular present indicative of rubare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of rubare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of rubare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of rubare
5. third-person singular imperative of rubare

Latin

Noun

rub?

1. nominative plural of rubus
2. genitive singular of rubus
3. vocative plural of rubus

Old Irish

Verb

·rubi

1. Alternative form of ·rubai

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan robí (“ruby”), from Medieval Latin rub?nus, from Latin rubeus (“red”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /hu.?bi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?u.?bi/

Noun

rubi m (plural rubis)

1. ruby (a deep red corundum gemstone)
2. ruby (a deep red colour)

Adjective

rubi (invariable, comparable)

1. ruby (deep red in colour)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rubí (“ruby”).

Noun

rubi

1. ruby

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish rupi.

Noun

rubi

1. scab
2. scar
3. roughness

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???????, ?????????????, ????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???? (furigana, literally “assigned phonetic character”).

Noun

furigana (plural furigana)

1. Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation.

Synonyms

• ruby character, rubi character

Translations

Anagrams

• Garifuna, Garífuna, fungaria

Japanese

Romanization

furigana

1. R?maji transcription of ????