I have always made some mistakes when doing the test of “cow” or “noon”. I think it would be “cow” but WANIKANI answers it was “noon” and vice verse. Ooh, I don’t know how to differentiate two words when doing tests. Give me a hand. Thanks a lot.

I always imagined the part sticking up from 牛, cow, to be a horn. Noon has no horn 午.

Oh, thanks all so so much. The difference is so clear, then so far it seems I have been blind. Ha ha. Thanks again.

[image] Leebo: I always imagined the part sticking up from 牛, cow, to be a horn. Noon has no horn 午. This was going to be my suggestion, but alas I was Leebo’d…

I imagine the gun radical is sliding on the cross radical. Noon is when the sun is at it’s highest. You can’t get any higher than 午.

There’s going to be a lot like that - you’ll see ‘year’ a lot, which is 年, and eventually you’ll see ‘arrow’ and ‘fault’, which are 矢 and 失 respectively.

Yeah, the WK mnemonics are a little bit useless for those; “a gun on a cross” could describe either one. I guess, more usefully, WK has 午 derived from 干 plus a “slide”… if you see a bit poking out the top, then it can’t really be using 干. It probably helps a bit more if you know that 平 is similarly…

That are two Kanjis I confuse as well, but not because I don’t know, but because I don’t pay enough attention when they come up :confused: … I need to remind myself to go slow when they come up. With noon I also tend to write “afternoon” instead of noon. Grmbl. Again, because I go to fast and don’t…

Ugh I messed up 申 and 由 so many times because 申 came up for Master review in the middle of 由 being a new item. Then the next couple times when I knew to look out for it, I still kept remembering them exactly wrong. I know Tofugu/WaniKani find writing to be somewhat irrelevant, but I wonder if takin…

Consider shooting them to get clear on this: If you shoot the cow, it may be either by accident or by mistake. The cow moved and the one behind it was struck; shot by accident. It was the neighbor’s cow very like yours; then shot by mistake. Shooting the noon is a navigational exercise to find on…

How do I differentiate between "cow" and "noon"?

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jneapan April 28, 2019, 7:30am 3

Cow 牛’s head pokes up while noon 午 doesn’t have one. That’s what helped me.

Edit: OMG first time I’ve been Leebo’ d

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How do I differentiate between "cow" and "noon"?

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