文字揃え

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
もん > も
Grade: 1

Grade: 1
そろ > ぞろ
Jinmeiyō
irregular goon kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
文字ぞろえ
Kanji in this term
もん > も
Grade: 1

Grade: 1
そろ
Jinmeiyō
irregular goon kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
文字そろえ
 文字揃え on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

文字 (character) +‎ 揃え (alignment)

Noun

()()(そろ) or ()()(ぞろ) (mojisoroe or mojizoroe

  1. (typography) character alignment
    Hyponyms: 上揃え, 行頭揃え, 行末揃え, 下揃え, 中央揃え, 右揃え, 左揃え, 両端揃え

Usage notes

文字揃え (mojisoroe) can simply be about typical alignments in Western typography such as "flush left/right" or "justify", but in Japanese typography, it can also be about aligning characters within their 仮想ボディ (kasō bodi, em squares) or 平均字面 (heikin jizura, ideographic character faces). For example, in a line with characters with different font size or advance width/height, the smaller characters can be aligned to the top/bottom/left/right side of the em squares or ICF squares of the largest characters.