jpan ja book inline-notes

[r12a]

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[r12a]

The Japanese base text reads 二重の影が, and the ruby spells out 'dopplegänger' in katakana.

[himorin]

This seems not a translation but an alternative way (or say, should be read as this) of pronunciation often used in SF or light novels, like:

from: 「鋼の錬金術師 4 遠い空の下で」 (スクウェア・エニックス) https://magazine.jp.square-enix.com/top/comics/detail/9784757513150/

To make a set of "world" in the novel, this kind of expression technique is used in Japanese books.

[xfq]

This kind of ruby can be seen as a figure of speech, kind of like metonymy. For example, the word "未来" (which means "future") is pronounced as "mirai", but can be annotated as "tsugi" (which means "next"); the word "一" (which means "one, first") is pronounced as "ichi", but can be annotated as "hajime" (which means "beginning").

This is kind of like kun'yomi (a kind of Japanese word that borrows the shape and meaning, but not pronunciation, from a Chinese word) or ateji (a kind of Japanese word that borrows the pronunciation, but not meaning, from a Chinese word), but different in that the annotation is usually not kanji.

[xfq]

It is called 義訓 (gikun) in Japanese.