Friday July 8 2022 Content Updates

WaniKani Content Updates
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Kanji

延 (30) - Added “extend”, “prolongation” and “extension” to the allow list.

折 (14) - Added “break” as an alternative meaning and updated the meaning mnemonic.

乏 (30) - Added “poor” to the allow list.

隻 (51) - Added “counter for ships” to the allow list.

軒 (51) - Added “counter for houses” to the allow list.

郡 (51) - Added “country” to the block list.

諾 (36) - Added “agree” to the allow list.

推 (34) - Added “inference” and “guess” to the allow list.

叩 (18) - Added はた as kun’yomi.

沖 (36) - Added “open water” to the allow list.

薦 (34) - Added “recommendation” to the allow list.

差 (24) - Added “distinct” and “differ” to the allow list.

Vocabulary

貴い (34) - Added “precious” to the allow list.

外人 (3) - Updated the reading explanation.

人口 (1) - Updated the reading explanation.

人間 (8) - Updated the reading explanation.

アメリカ人 (3) - Updated the reading explanation.

人生 (3) - Updated the reading explanation.

人気 (4) - Updated the reading explanation.

折る (14) - Made “to fold something” the primary meaning and “to break something” an alternative meaning, added “to fold”, “to break”, “to bend” and “to bend something” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

折れる (16) - Updated the meaning explanation.

骨折 (14) - Updated the meaning explanation.

〜畳 (47) - Added “tatami mat counter” as an alternative meaning.

時期 (12) - Moved “time period” and “period of time” to the allow list.

郡 (51) - Added “country” to the block list.

白旗 (32) - Made しろはた primary reading and updated the reading explanation.

浦 (51) - Updated the meaning explanation.

脱獄 (35) - Added “prison break”, “escape from jail”, “prison breaking” and “prison breach” to the allow list.

お握り (46) - Updated the reading explanation.

被る (20) - Added こうむる to the reading warning list, and added “to suffer” and “to receive” to the meaning warning list.

機 (20) - Added はた to the reading warning list, and added “loom” to the meaning warning list.

連中 (19) - Added “the gang” as the primary meaning, added “guys” and “bunch” as alternative meanings, moved “colleagues”, “troupe” and “these guys” to the allow list, added “gang” and “crowd” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated two context sentence translations.

白人 (2) - Updated the reading explanation.

一斤 (7) - Added “1 Loaf of Bread” and “1 Bread Loaf” to the allow list.

心配事 (12) - Added “worry”, “trouble” and “concern” to the allow list.

等号 (18) - Updated the meaning explanation and updated two context sentences.

喫茶店 (18) - Made “cafe” the primary meaning, moved “tea house” to the alternative meanings, added “tearoom” and “coffee bar” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

瑠璃色 (58) - Added “deep blue” to the allow list.

亮平 (51) - Added examples to meaning explanation.

大輔 (52) - Added examples to meaning explanation, updated reading explanation, added たいふ and おおすけ as alternative readings, and added “Taifu” and “Osuke” as alternative meanings.

綾乃 (52) - Added examples to meaning explanation.

莉子 (53) - Added examples to meaning explanation.

瑛斗 (55) - Add examples to meaning and reading explanations, added あきと as an alternative reading, and added “Akito” as an alternative meaning.

遼太 (55) - Updated meaning explanation with examples.

拓哉 (57) - Updated meaning explanation with examples.

菅原 (58) - Added historical information and examples to meaning explanation.

沙羅 (59) - Added examples to meaning explanation.

早乙女 (59) - Updated meaning explanation with examples, added “proper noun” as a part of speech, added そうとめ, そおとめ, さをとめ and さとめ to the warning list, and added two example sentences.

伸びる (36) - Added “to stretch”, “to lengthen”, “to be extended”, “to extend” and “to improve” to the allow list, and added one context sentence.

永遠 (32) - Added “eternal”, “permanent” and “ever” to the allow list, and added two context sentences.

借家 (18) - Updated the meaning explanation.

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Thanks Jenny! Could you please add some new items to wanikani I only have 20 reviews max a day and I’m starting to get bored.

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We’re working on it, I promise!

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I’m loving these new jin vs. nin distinctions. It’s a common mistake I make and I’m excited to go through the updated reading explanations. Thank you!

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Maybe start a 10k vocab deck? Or better yet, read or enjoy other media and make your own cards from them? :wink:
Even Kouichi tells you to go out into the world in one of his last mails, I believe :wink:

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Thank you, Jenny!

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You know I am doing all of that everyday. I even make my own mnemonics it’s just that I forget them right away. :sweat_smile:

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お疲れさまです！Good updates!

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Thank you!

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Thank you, trunklayer!

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Is there a good place to suggest additions to the block list? WaniKani just accepted “sunlight” as the kanji meaning for 晩 but that is definitely the wrong meaning.

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Thanks WK team! :+1:

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Try:

and just remember to @ the Mods when you do. :slight_smile:

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Thank you, Jenny! :grin:

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I’m loving these new jin vs. nin distinctions. It’s a common mistake I make and I’m excited to go through the updated reading explanations. Thank you!

There’s more of these to come! We’re currently looking at making a bunch of changes like this to various items at levels 1-10 that contain kanji with more than one reading, so for a while you should see updates like this each week.

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Is there a good place to suggest additions to the block list? WaniKani just accepted “sunlight” as the kanji meaning for 晩 but that is definitely the wrong meaning.

This most likely happened because “sunlight” was still close enough to the accepted meaning “night” for our typo leniency system. I’ve added both “light” and “sunlight” to the block list for the kanji and vocab. A better way to let us know about these things would be through our contact page, i.e. just shooting our support team a message/email, who will then let us know about it so we can have a look! But thanks for pointing this out.

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People tend to use the worst typos thread for that a lot too and at-mention the mods group, and it seems like the mods are pretty cool with it…

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Yeah I think as long as it reaches a member of the support staff it’s usually fine, since then they can either make the change themselves or create a GitHub ticket for us to look at!

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NO.

It’s about time to leave the nest and focus more on grammar, reading, listening, speaking, etc.

Fly little bird, now, go on, say bye bye, fly towards fluency and never look back.

Even The Crabigator wants, NEEDS you to do so, you should help Kis Kingliness, good luck!

Go now, go!

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