I've recently started writing in a genkouyoushi notebook for practice and I've
been writing furigana along with it to reinforce the reading. I was wondering
how Japanese writers typically write furigana for jukugo or other multi-
character words. Do I write the entire word out first, then write the furigana
for all of the characters in the word, or do I write the furigana for each
character as I write that character, even in the middle of writing a word?

At first it seemed most straightforward to write the furigana immediately as I
write each character, but I found myself saying in my head the reading of
individual characters twice and it became hard to think about, so I thought
maybe it was better to write the whole word and then come back and write the
furigana.

Is there a best practice? Or is it "just do what works for you"?
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handwriting furigana genkōyōshi
Ordering of writing furigana in multi-character words
**I would prefer kanji first** as they pop into my mind when I write. Furigana
is just an afterthought for the convenience of others. But I'm Chinese.

On the other hand, if you're used to the **sound as the identifier of a word**
, I supposed you'd write that first for your convenience as well.

I'm not sure why people want to write kanjis then kana then kanji then kana. I
see you find it a bit disrupting as well.

Either way, since the result is the same for others to see (unless we're
talking about ink and **smudges** ), you should feel guiltless for doing
whatever you want.
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Yes, there is a "best" (of course, what is best is in this case subjective)
way of writing furigana, like this: 振{ふ}り仮{が}名{な}の書{か}き方{かた}.

Other methods are sometimes used in real scenarios (e.g. Newspapers), and then
I've seen the furigana written in parenthesis after the whole word, even if
the word consists of two kanji split by some okurigana.
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