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Kana carrying the grammar.
Also known as: Inflectional kana
The Japanese kana written after a character to show its inflection.
Write the inflectional ending of a word whose stem is written with a Chinese character.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Distinguished from furigana by size and position: okurigana is part of the word at full size and furigana is an annotation above it at half size, and confusing them changes what is read aloud.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Kana letters at full size following the character, forming the tail of the word rather than a gloss above it.
Okurigana is full-size and part of the word; furigana is half-size and an annotation above it.