Language | BILINGUAL Jul 14, 2013

Furigana: read the fine print, decode the hidden meanings

by Mark Schreiber

Years ago, a colleague at a company where I worked had a surname written using a character so obscure, that when handing out his business card he used to joke apologetically, 名前の漢字、ほとんど誰も読めない (namae no kanji, hotondo dare mo yomenai, hardly anybody can read the ...