Help:Ruby characters

Ruby characters are small reading aids that are placed on top of some characters.

On the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki, this is used to add furigana characters on top of some Japanese characters. This is done using a set of tags, known as "ruby".

Display
When rendered correctly, the furigana should appear on top of the kanji. If a browser does not support ruby tags, the furigana will appear after the kanji in a set of parenthesis.

Supported browsers
Some browsers such as Internet Explorer and Google Chrome render this correctly. Other browsers may just see a set of brackets with characters. Firefox does not have out-of-the-box support for XHTML Ruby, but the XHTML Ruby support add-on can be downloaded and works on all Firefox versions from 2.0 to 3.7a1pre

Adding ruby text
To add ruby text, the following syntax is used;  This can be quickly inserted using the edit tools.

Example 帝(てい)

produces 帝(てい).