Kanji Meaning Changed?

[donut223]

Hello!

I have a kanji up for burn and noticed that 昆 is given the meaning of insect. I got this wrong regardless during my review but i swear the meaning back when I learned it was descendant. Did they change the meaning of this kanji? Please help my sanity ._.

[Arzar33]

You are not mad, they changed it last November !

From descendant to insect

I just noticed that 昆 is now supposed to mean “insect” (because it came up in a KameSame review, and I was quite certain I never learned a second Kanji with that meaning after 虫). I swear when I learned (and burned) 昆, it still meant “descendant”, but now that meaning is no longer even a synonym. That had me quite confused. I had to look it up in a dictionary to be sure I wasn’t imagining things. I submit it would be less confusing to the user if, when the main meaning of a Kanji is changed, th…

[Saida]

Yes it was changed.

[donut223]

Any reason on why? Also, is there a place where I can see status updates like this so I can adjust my mnemonics? Even though I’m 43, I rarely check on when WK gets updated lol.

[Arzar33]

@donut223

Any reason on why?

Because even if the meaning of “descendant” is totally correct and appear in some words, probably the most common words using that kanji outside of 昆布 are words related to insect like 昆虫, 昆虫学 etc

@donut223

Also, is there a place where I can see status updates like this so I can adjust my mnemonics?

You can see them here, there is a monthly post:

Content Updates

[d-hermit]

The kept “descendant” as a valid answer though, so you should be fine if you remember that meaning.

[wannabefssp]

On a burn review, I put descendant for this. Then I looked and it said it also meant insect. I was very confused and assumed I had accidentally given an alternate meaning. Then 混 came up and I answered “descendant” for it because I knew something was supposed to be descendant, but I thought 昆 was not it.

[donut223]

Sadly I didn’t