When you are asked for kanji meaning, you never put ‘to’.
When you are asked for vocab meaning and the vocab is a verb, you always put ‘to’.
It’s simple.
What’s not simple is that the meaning of kanji is sometimes a verb (without ‘to’), sometimes a noun, sometimes an adjective and it’s very inconsistent indeed.
For example, 癒 is healing (noun) 療 is heal (verb), how the hell do I remember that? 凍 is frozen (adjective or a verb in the past tense), why not ‘freeze’? 狩 is hunt and 猟 is hunting, what’s the difference? Etc etc.
No problem, I’m sure there are times when it can be confusing and even frustrating at first, but I promise you that with some practice you’ll get the hang of it
Just FYI, since one of your examples might have more to do with meaning nuance and not with the kanji (pink) vs. vocab (purple) issue:
This may be a problem with meaning nuance. Unfortunately, WK can’t list all the nuance specifics for each item without making the input list ridiculous, so they have a simplified version. You can take a look at this thread for this specific instance. You can also swing by this thread for other nuance questions. You can then add synonyms to those items at your discretion to aid in answering/differentiation.
I don’t know if you’ve used this forum much, but if you want to mark MissMisc’s post as a “solution” by clicking the box with the checkmark, it might help people understand that you don’t need anymore explanation.
(example from a different thread - only the person who created the topic can mark a solution)
