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@staubhold

I don’t like Wanikani always sticking to the Radical system for explaining new Kanji, even though when it would make it much easier to explain the new Kanji with existing ones. For example: The Kanji 痴 (stupid) is explained using the three radicals 疒 (Sick) + 矢 (Arrow) + 口 (Mouth). So the Mnemonic turns into
You're sick because you put an arrow in your mouth and tried to eat it. To be honest, that's just really stupid. You have to be stupid to try to eat an arrow. You deserve to be sick .
Why not just use 疒 (Sick) + 知 (Know), a Kanji that you already learned?

@alo

Yeah, I agree with both of your points. I hope the WK team will address it at some point.

Looks like they are already addressing it in some cases, although the sheep kanji is already treated as a radical. At least they seem to be on to the idea that they should change the mnemonic breakdown of kanji to the largest recognizable units…

@TofuguJenny

美 (9) - changed radical breakdown from “horns”, “king” and “big” to “sheep” and “big”, and updated meaning and reading mnemonics and hints.

羨 (21) - changed radical breakdown from “horns”, “king” and “next” to “sheep” and “next”, and updated meaning and reading mnemonics and hints.

Since this seems like really good and well argued feedback it might be worth at-ing @Mods or maybe @TofuguJenny ? to make sure they’re aware and can discuss it when they’re working on the content updates.