Re: Ruby: questions about fallback

But the question is, do they need to be rubified as compounds or as 
individual characters?  My guess is the latter.

RI


On 06/03/2013 17:17, John Cowan wrote:
> Phillips, Addison scripsit:
>
>> I can't speak to the expectation of Chinese users for ruby fallback,
>> but from recent experience, I do know that compound nouns in Chinese
>> are not uncommon, even if your surmise about them being less common
>> than in Japanese is correct. Having ruby appear parenthetically between
>> each subword might look odd, even though the ruby (when drawn as ruby)
>> would be placed character-by-character.
>
> Indeed, the great bulk of all Chinese nouns are compound, if by that is
> meant "written with two or more hanzi".
>


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