Furigana may be added by character, in which case the furigana characters that correspond to a kanji are centered over that kanji ; or by word or phrase, in which case the entire furigana word is centered over several kanji characters, even if the kanji do not represent equal shares of the kana needed to write them.

Furigana are most commonly used in works for children, who may not have sufficiently advanced reading skills to recognize the kanji, but can understand the word when written phonetically in hiragana.

Furigana may also be used for foreign names written in kanji.

Furigana are usually written using the hiragana syllabary ; foreign words may not have a kanji form and are spelled out using katakana.

Furigana may aid children or nonnative speakers or clarify nonstandard, rare, or ambiguous readings.

Furigana is also known as or in Japanese.

Furigana also appear often on maps to show the pronunciation of unusual place names.

Furigana are also often used in foreign language textbooks for Japanese learners to indicate pronunciation.

Furigana are sometimes also used to indicate meaning, rather than pronunciation.

Furigana commonly appear alongside kanji names and their romanizations on signs for railway stations, even if the pronunciation of the kanji is commonly known.

Furigana fonts are generally sized so that two kana characters fit naturally over one kanji ; when more kana are required, this is resolved either by adjusting the furigana by using a condensed font ( narrowing the kana ), or by adjusting the kanji by intercharacter spacing ( adding spaces around the kanji ).

Furigana are written alongside kanji, or Chinese characters, to indicate their pronunciation especially in juvenile publications.

It automatically adds Furigana, offers easy access to the EDICT dictionary, and learns interactively which kanji the user already knows.

Furigana is shown to the right.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

That, however, may also bring the police, if the thinking does not meet with social approval.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

He may also consider ideas.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

The defect of these proposals is in their attempt to outrun history and their assumption that because something may be desirable it is also possible.

Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

The return for a decedent may also serve as a claim for refund of an overpayment of tax.

If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.

Since you contributed more than half of his support, you may also claim an exemption for him on your return.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

Outboard motors, insurance, and boat repairs may also be financed in the same way as boats.

Boatyards which also provide some of the above facilities may rightfully be called marinas.

It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene, but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around.

A site may also be attractive just through the beauty of its trees and shrubs.

It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.

`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.

What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.