An {{nihongo|'''Furigana'''|[[wikt:振り仮名|振り仮名]]}} saróng uri kan [[Tataramon na Hapon|pagsurat]] sa nacion na [[Hapon]] na kun saen ini saróng pambulong sa pagbasa o reading aid, na igwang sararadit na [[kana]], o silabikong mga karakter, na pigprita kasunod kan [[kanji]] ([[Ideogramo|ideograpikong]] karakter) o iba pan karakter tanganing ipahiling an saiyang [[pagsayod]]. Ini saróng urí kan [[karakter na rubi|tekstong rubi]]. Bistado man an Furigana bilan {{nihongo|'''yomigana'''|[[wikt:読み仮名|読み仮名]]}} o {{nihongo|'''rubi'''|[[wikt:ルビ|ルビ]]}} sa Hapones. Sa modernong Hapon, itpirming ispiggagamit mostlyini usedtanganing toi'glosa an glossmga rarebihirang kanji, totanganing clarifyiklaripika rarean mga bihira, nonstandardbakong orestandarte o mga ''ambiguous'' kanji readingsna babasahon, oro insa childrenmga pan'saki oro learnerspan'adal materials.na Beforemga themateryales. post-WorldBagó War IIan [[JapaneseRepormang scriptiskriturang reformHapones|scriptmga reformsRepormang Iskritura]],itna post-world war II, waskuminarap moreini widespreadlalo.<ref name="Sampson1990">{{cite book|author=Geoffrey Sampson|title=Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVcdNRvwoDkC&pg=PA190|date=1990|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1756-4|page=190}}</ref>
An Furigana isminsan mostoftenkadaklan writtennakasurat insa [[hiragana]], thoughsa [[katakana]], alphabetmga lettersletrang oralpabeto othero kanjiiba canpan kanji alson bepwedeng usedgamiton in certain special cases. In vertical text, ''[[Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts|tategaki]]'', the furigana is placed to the right of the line of text; in horizontal text, ''[[Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts|yokogaki]]'', it is placed above the line of text, as illustrated below.
