Noun: rubi
Sample Sentences
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"Shinjuku Sketch" demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture. [2010, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, page 170:]
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Bespoke combinations of kanji can also be created, because the intended phonetic and semantic readings can be supplied by the rubi glosses. [2012, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Judy Wakabayashi, Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context, page 158:]
Nouns inflected like rubi
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Japanese ルビ (rubi), from English ruby. See: English Nouns '
ruby'.