Re: [clreq] ruby: phonetics only?

Actually, ruby being used for metonymic or metonym-like sake is not rare in China. See below via [the Moegirlpedia](https://zh.moegirl.org/%E9%A3%8E%E6%9A%B4%E8%8B%B1%E9%9B%84). (Btw, this site is full of such use cases in other entries.)

![ruby](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3247876/32841064-5fef7920-ca54-11e7-823c-91bbf37d0d5f.png)

I agree that this kind of usages is originally influenced by Japanese culture. Nowadays, not only sub-culture societies, also the mainstream media adopt such usages to enrich their expressions. Limited to the typesetting environments, however, a more often alternative annotation style is the in-text note between brackets.

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