is my computer’s font messed up, or is this kanji just… different? :sob: i came across a word in a manga (cardcaptor sakura) and while it has furigana so i knew what it was, i wanted to look up the kanji, anyway however, when i typed it, it gave me something that looked very different than what i …

It’s a variant because Japanese kanji simplifications are a mess: [variant] Basically the 曽 kanji is a simplified form of 曾 but 噌 isn’t jouyou so it kept the traditional version of the component while, for instance, 增 simplified into 増 because it’s jouyou. There are a bunch of similar cases all …

does everyone see it like that? if that’s the case, how can wanikani justify its radicals? :sob:

[image] straille: does everyone see it like that? They should. [image] straille: if that’s the case, how can wanikani justify its radicals? :sob: No refunds.

[image] straille: if that’s the case, how can wanikani justify its radicals? :sob: Yeah, WaniKani’s approach to radicals is sometimes “close enough is good enough”. Like the “Easy” radical 易, which has an extra horizontal stroke (i.e. 昜) in every single kanji it’s taught in aside from the 易 k…

[image] straille: if that’s the case, how can wanikani justify its radicals? :sob: They’re mnemonic devices, so they’re not meant to be precise in the first place, as mentioned before. But even then, it would be impossible to account for all alt versions if you really did want to.

i understand there are going to be variations, but it looks so drastically different as to be unrecognisable as the radical it claims to be :sob: also, how can it be “simplified” if it has more strokes? edit: oh, i was thinking backwards (as usual) the mask radical is the simplified version

[image] straille: does everyone see it like that? Just to be clear, both versions of 噌 get used in the wild [image] [image]

In this case it would probably be helpful if WK briefly mentioned in their meaning section for the 噌 kanji that yes, the mask radical looks a bit different here and why (you could even mnemonicify it a bit if you wanted: miso is a traditional Japanese food so you wear a traditional mask which is mor…

yea, i understand that wanikani is for learning specifically how to read kanji and that if you’re going to write, they expect you to type however, like i said, the kanji is so very different that i got confused i think i’ll add your explanation to it for when i get there i intended to also practi…

Encountered a strange kanji

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YanagiPablo July 28, 2025, 5:55pm 11

Mask wearers uses to be very sad 曾、then one day some of them noticed it, and got angry 曽

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