That’s true, but not the reason why (native English speaker). I think I’m associating ten with the end of a series, and that’s what trips me up.
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These are sort of a mix between Leech-tachi and Leech-kun…
一日 First Day (ついたち)
(I can’t remember “second day”)
三日 Third Day (みっか)
四日 Fourth Day (よっか)
五日 Fifth Day (いつか)
六日 Sixth Day (むいか)
七日 Seventh Day (なのか)
And every other “[Number] Day” with a special reading! I’ve had these unlocked for a really long time, and I don’t think I’ve burned a single one of them. Plus I don’t really find the mnemonics for these vocabs very easy to remember.
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Counters are always a pain. I found that I was constantly mixing those up until I studied them closely outside of WK. Thankfully they’re all burned and fairly easy to remember without mnemonics now, but it took some time.
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The reason for the weird numbering of the months is that the Romans only had ten months that started with March (“the month of Mars”). January and February were only added later (before they were just “winter days” that didn’t get their own month).
Quite a strange concept.
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Maybe another (more classical) interpretation of the kanji can help you. I bought the book The Key to Kanji, which looks how the kanji originally looked like, it’s quite interesting.
- The lower part (water slide) indicates movement.
- The Ent 束 signifies a tightly packed bundle (edit: looking like a box carried on a person’s back). You can move swiftly when you are well-prepared.
- 速 depicts a quick or fast movement
- On the other hand the remainder of 遠 signifies a deceased person. You can see (from the top) 止 (simplified into 土) to stop, the 口 is a jewel/ornaments, and the lower part are clothes. Someone going on their last journey with their best possessions.
- This kanji shows someone on their last journey to a “distant place”. Certainly not fast, but veery far.
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For a quick and dirty way of telling them apart, 遠い has some distance between the top and bottom.
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叔 and 淑, maybe because I stopped writing Kanji by hand. (I stopped around Lv52. I stopped writing in AnkiDroid. Type-in only.)
So, if I don’t write in Anki anymore, maybe I should try Iversen method?
One more obvious leech I have to mention,
〜付き つき and
〜漬け づけ
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I guess I should do something about 資格 still being apprentice despite my 259 attempts.
Edit: I went to look for an appropriate gif of the meaning, forgot it, and had to look it up again.
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You certainly have the qualifications to talk about leeches 
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Three similar meanings, three combinations of three kanji: “lively,” “leap,” and “move” :
what’s extra leechy about them?
活躍 ー activity, great efforts
活動 ー action, activity
躍動 ー lively motion, throb
The only one that DOES have the word “lively” in its meaning is the one that does NOT contain the kanji 活, meaning “lively.”
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I can’t see any relation between score, SRS, and Wrong, other than Wrong seems to be less than SRS (does SRS 5 mean Guru 1, or it’s come up 5 times?). Do you have a link to the script or page you’re using to generate the chart? Unless we know exactly how the score column is calculated, it’s impossible to answer.
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chart generated from here〜
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wktoys/leechDetector.htm
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I do have a problem with 躍如 for some reasons.
躍如 やくじょ vivid
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After looking at the code, the chart Maps to the following:
Column 1: The item in question’s kanji/kana (color indicates if radical/kanji/vocab)
Column 2: Whether The row refers to meaning or reading (R for reading, M for Meaning. Not in the code, but makes sense)
Column 3: SRS level. 1, 2, 3, 4 mean Apprentice, 5, 6 mean guru, 7 means master, 8 means enlightened, Burned not shown.
Column 4: How many times you’ve answered that particular item wrong. (for example the meaning of 金玉)
Column 5 (the important one): the incorrect count divided by your current streak, rounded to the nearest single decimal place. So, if you had a reading streak of 6, with 4 incorrect answers, you would have a score of 0.7.
After looking at this, a score is the ratio of total incorrect answers to current consecutive correct answers, suggesting a higher score is a leechier item.
EDIT: If you’ve just finished a review session, and you got an answer wrong, that item will likely be higher up on the list than expected, since x/1 = x. Example: In review, I’ve just got 生む’s meaning wrong, bringing my total incorrect answers to 3. Since I got it wrong, my current streak is 1. So, it has a score of 3.0
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thank you for detailed information and extra example you’ve added〜 the only column i can guess is column 1 and 2〜 at least now i can figured how this chart works〜♪
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@minamixdrops, the code was originally developed by @StellaTerra, who explained the formula as follows:
The script became so popular that StellaTerra created a thread for us to address questions specifically about it: Official leechDetector script thread. @bladepoint’s explanation is correct.
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狐 and 孤
I should return to writing individual Kanji stroke-by-stroke ASAP.
Another one, 宗 and 崇.
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Real confusion this time…
Why is
畜 livestock, while 蓄 amass?
What about the grass (艸)?
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