Hello!
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that are the hardest to remember…
I am always mistaking 八 for 入 (strangely not in the other direction?) which is keeping me from leveling up! Does anyone have experience with mistaking two Kanji? How do you deal with situations like this? Do you make up your “own” mnemonics/explanations for the difference? I am asking because I guess that this will happen more often later on
This is acutally my first post here, sooo - はじめまして!
Interesting suggestions!
I haven’t seen the similarity in ハ and 八!
Maybe I should also think that 入 must be closed, because it is a tent you enter, and if the tent is not closed, it will be useless if it rains…
Not even joking, when I have leeches like that, I write them on a whiteboard that I see every morning as I go out the door. I’ll generally erase it after about a week or two. Increasing one’s number of exposures to the item may prove useful for some. i.e. Me.
Wait until you use kanji handwriting IME on your phone and try to see if the system interprets your horizontal line as 一 (one) or ー (katakana long vowel indicator/chouonpu).
Other fun characters: 二 and ニ, 夕 and タ, へ and ヘ, 力 and カ, 才 and オ.
Hahaha I mean “straight up” as in “word” , “I feel you” - it’s a hood expression haha. Didn’t realize how confusing it will be since you were talking about orientation. My bad XD