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A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is diffe
A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are now considered the first phrases written in the Castilian language.
Liji
Ruby character
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Ruby characters or rubi characters are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of logographic characters of languages in the East Asian cultural sphere, such as Chinese
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…in scientific writing and technical writing are also often called glosses. Hyperlinks to a glossary sometimes supersede them. In East Asian languages, ruby characters are glosses that indicate the pronunciation of logographic Chinese characters. Starting in the 14th century, a gloze in the English language was a…
The Hunmin Jeongeum Eonhae uses hanja and small hangul for ruby to the lower-right of the hanja characters.