Sorry, me again 
- for 上がる, if you think of agar (the gelatin-like stuff from seaweed) that makes your bread rise?
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I’ve found Item Inspector to be much more useful for leeches than the native Critical Condition items display on the dashboard. I’ve recently started using it and have managed to knock out a few of the worst. My brain just wants to see items at more random times than WK’s SRS system provides, and Item Inspector helpfully shows me who my worst leeches are.
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Mhmm, that’s fair. I think it just confused me more when this 乚 did come up as umbrella, I think I would’ve used a different mnemonic like hook or something.
But I guess speculating about it will probably just make me more confused, lol.
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ooh! “raise” does have that e sound like in げ… that might just be enought for me to sort out all four of the set! 
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Wanikani used to have a lot more radicals like that where the radical name was more like what it actually looked like, and then the kanji was just a completely different definition, but people people gave feedback that they wanted the radicals to be closer to the actual meanings of the kanji. Having gone through the first 20+ levels a couple of times now over the years, I definitely like it better now even though I had to learn the “new” meanings of the radicals.
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Thinking about it now, I think I used the same principle for 下がる and “to fall” - が and “fall” being close enough to the same sound for gummint work…
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If it makes you feel any better, I have gotten the cow kanji wrong about ten million times. “Cow” is still going to be on “apprentice” by the time I reach level 60 lol!
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I keep getting 午 and 牛 confused. I know that Cow has a little “horn” on top, but I’ll still forget depending how tired my brain is when it shows up.
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I felt that. That one and several others absolutely scrambled my brain when I started getting those. 「未、末、米、来、失、牛、午」and the “dry” radical had me on pins and needles for the longest time whenever they were presented individually. Combinations with other kanji or kana were a relief, but man, those all look so alike.
I am pretty sure that you can put shellfish for both and it will work, since shellfish is listed as a synonym for the vocab.
The other way you could look at it is that for 午 the drop is at the highest part (think of high noon).
Learning the radical “names” on WK primarily serve to give you mental visuals to help build little stories to remember the kanji. Honestly, once you’re well settled into the kanji, the radicals don’t hold much power anymore. Adding synonyms to radicals-that-are-also-kanji, to match any meanings of that kanji, won’t hurt you.
I did that to 身 not too long ago, myself. It was a case of kanji coming first and it meant “somebody”, then it showed up at a later level as a radical… but it was called “someone”. That was fun to get wrong several times, then subsequently get confused at the kanji/vocab! (Thankfully, it seems WK fixed the radical shortly after).
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I even go so far as to put in the reading, too. Whatever comes to mind first!
Like others said, just add a synonym for the Kanji or Radical, that’s not cheating.
I personally added the synonym “money” for the radical, since that is essentially what it means.
The shellfish refers to seashells that were used as means of payment in the past.
‘Shellfish’ is pretty confusing, but a lot of Kanji learning apps still use that meaning. If you think of it as ‘money’ a lot of Kanji you’ll encounter later on will make much more sense.
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