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紅玉 (kou gyo ku) is Japanese for 'ruby'. They also use the borrowed word ルビー (ru bii) for the same word.

But if you mean what does Japanese linguistic term 'ruby' mean, it is the general term used to refer to 'furigana' and 'furikanji', each of which appear next to the other to explain pronunciation of it, like you see in Japanese newspapers, above the kanji letters there are hiragana characters to explain its reading, and sometimes vice versa.

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