Furigana

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  furigana
       
           (Or "rubi") Small {hiragana},
          written above {kanji} (and these days sometimes above Latin
          characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid.  The
          singular and plural are both "furigana".


       
          (2000-12-30)