Hello!
> I know that there
> are romanizations, which would be good for English-speaking students,
> but not very useful for Chinese, I think (the only Chinese I have ever
> met who could read romanizations were Chinese language teachers). Is
> ruby used at all in native Chinese contexts?
Well, latin characters ARE actually used in China by the Chinese themselves.
The so-called "pinyin"-transcription system is used to indicate the reading
of unknown resp. new characters in school or even in some character
dictionaries.
Regards,
Berthold
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