What’s the lowest level kanji or vocab word that you still can’t seem to remember despite your high level?
For me it’s the number of days/counters. 
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This:
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+1 Yep. Same
EDIT: Eyy, I joined three days before you! The level difference exposes my laziness… o(ーωー)o
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My lowest level guru item is 活気 (level 6). I typed “lively” for the answer in the burn review. It’s not like it has happened many times or anything though.
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Even at my low level everything related to 活 is a curse and I have a feeling that won’t get any better as I level up.
I dunno if I’m considered “high,” but some of my biggest problems are the 50 million words that mean rules and/or law… 法則、法律、法規、規律、規則。。。etc… I also remember randomly missing weird stuff like 用いる that I
never もちいる’d outside of WK 
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Wouldn’t call myself a high-leveler but…
Those two cause me headaches too >.< specially 活気 sometimes I get the reading wrong, some others the meaning… it doesn’t go away ;-;
Edit: Also 用事… can’t seem to make the freaking meaning stick, and I refuse to use synonyms
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The lowest-level unburned item I have is the “enclosure” radical, 勹. It’s still Enlightened.
Then there’s the kanji 文 (“writing”) from level two. I think I keep associating it with the meaning “part” because it has the reading 「ぶん」and bears a very slight resemblance to 分. It’s still at Enlightened.
And then at level six, 考 (“think”) is still guru, probably because I keep confusing it with 教 and 孝. But generally in compounds and as 考える, etc I have no problem with it, so wtf.
Can’t say I ran into these issues yet although it’s interesting to see. What I am wondering though is at which level did you have WK throw you something from a million levels ago and you just went “wait… shit…”
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I’ve answered 伺 63 times –_–
I’m fine when it’s part of vocab words, but I always mess up the solo kanji ;_;
I had to resurrect 何 & 司 so I could drill them alongside it again - though I always recognise those.
I’m just hopeless at 伺 for some reason. Super leech.
I flip the readings for 凸凹 & 凹凸 a bit too.
I feel like reviewing them now just helped… so thanks!
[edit: nope, I got them flipped hahaha]
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Speaking of… I just recently missed burning this… because I put in なん instead of なに… due to all those jukugo that use it that way. I forgot such a basic word that I knew for years and years before WaniKani! (Not the kanji, but the word.) I was kicking myself! XD
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For the meaning, I just memorised as having the same meaning as 気. For the reading, I memorised it as being written in the same way as Stamp 切手: the double t happens :o
Imagine it as a quill pen above a table. It’s there for you to do some writing.
For reading, it is mostly Rendaku and -yuu/-you. Kanji meaning is a big department I have problem with. Readings are less likely to be messed up.
Please see the Leech Squashing thread.
Funny, that’s one of mine too.
My lowest level kanji I have problems with is apparently 欠. There’s also 相 because I always got the pronunciation confused with something that looked similar.
And vocab… wow. It’s 日 and 大いに. Level 2.
I have a problem with these as well. How they work:
If it starts with 法 it has to do with law
If it starts with 規 it has to do with rule
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I’m in the counter club. My lowest one is…wait for it. 九つ at level one. I literally can’t even. I have some higher level guru’s that I got wrong just because of spelling mistakes or blasting through them to fast, but this one rightly just doesn’t stick in my brain, regardless of how many times I hear/write it. .___.;
Oh well. It’s guru for a reason lol.
A month or so ago I randomly brain farted and forgot what 首 meant… I promptly punished myself by unburning it!
Looking at my kanji list, it seems I tend to think 牛 is 午 when shown out of context.
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How can you not remember the time your dad made you eat 9 whole bowls of COCONUT SOUP?!?
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For me the lowest level vocabulary I haven’t burned is 休止.
When I was in college we were taught it meant “cancel” so I type that in almost every time, but wanikani uses pause, rest, break.
I’m only level 5, and 大いに is already kicking my butt. 
I think it’s the only one from that subset of 大 vocab I haven’t Mastered too. I always remember the reading, but can never remember what it means. My brain always goes okay, you know this is a tricky one… It’s not Considerable, cause that one ends in た. It’s not just big, cause it doesn’t end in い. So what’s another uncommon 大 vocab? Ooh yeah Size!! It’s gotta be Size!! Spoiler… It’s not Size; it’s mother flippin’ Very. Every. Freaking. Time. 
I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten it wrong so many times that I now have a false memory that makes me keep thinking it’s Size which perpetuates the Leech indefinitely.
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