I love Wanikani. But this doesn’t make sense to me. I have come across a few radicals like this that say “it is the same as the kanji,” but then don’t include the kanji in the found kanji list or link to it.
I realize that it only takes a few seconds to search for the kanji… but this happens a lot, and tbh I think it’s really inefficient.
The kanji should be included or hyperlinked.
Am I crazy?
I had the same frustration back when I was going through the course, and also the fact that the vocab in example sentence was similarly unlinked to the various entries. And the fact that there was no furigana in example sentences, although that’s a different topic.
OH yeah totally. I like all the new updates, but I feel like they are missing some major things that would make their site more convenient for the user.
Yeah I think this is sort of a design choice where you learn the 業 radical off the back of the 業 kanji and not the other way around.
They’ve made the decision to teach the 業 kanji as the combination of their spikes + sheep + fin radicals as opposed to as being exactly the business radical (which of course it also is!). Certainly for many of the more complex kanji there are multiple set of combinations of WK radicals that could combine to it but for the sake of teaching you the specific mnemonic for the kanji they pick just one.
I’m not sure what the right solution here is as I think certain really basic radicals would appear in many dozens of kanji if you included every possible combination, but certainly this particular case of the radical and kanji being the same but the radical being taught later resulting in it not being linked exposes a silly feeling corner case.
No, you’re not crazy. This is what the hyperlink was invented for.
After a long period of frustration, I came to the forum to make my first post about exactly this.
It would be immensely helpful if every instance of “This radical is the same as the kanji” had a footnote: But in case you forgot, here is the mnemonic:
My secondary preference would be a link right next to the mnemonic, but ideally you save the millions of clicks and just store the extra paragraph on the radical page. lol
Ideally my review sessions have as little time clicking about as possible, so I can study efficiently and feel like my time is being used well.
Business Kanji is level 10 and then it becomes a radical at level 12. So it definitely should be linked. Is there even a point in including the business kanji under the list for the business radical?
I’d be for it if there was a change to how it looks. Sometimes when the kanji become radicals they take on awkward distortions.
