Why are the radical components listed as ‘dirt’ (土) and ‘easy’ (易) for the kanji ‘location’ (場)? Shouldn’t it be ‘dirt’ (土), ‘ground’ (一), and ‘wing’ (勿)? There’s clearly an extra stroke in there.
Yeah, that’s long been one of my gripes about the “easy” radical. WaniKani can sometimes be a little loose with its radicals - even if it’s an extra stroke here or there, or strokes are a different shape or drawn in a different order, they’re still regarded as the same radical. But in the case of “easy”, aside from the 易しい kanji itself, every single use of the radical has the extra horizontal stroke. Six of the seven kanji. Surely it’s better to introduce it as 昜, and then have 易 as the exception. It even lends itself well to a mnemonic - “it’s easier to write because there’s one less stroke”.
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That is useful information, I just added a note. I think they should at least mention the extra/missing strokes when they occur. Like they warn us that 生 will sometimes have a stroke missing such as in 青. I like to do extra practice by writing, so I want to know. Thanks for your help.
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I actually have a weird theory about that. If it’s stacked on top of another part, it loses the line. I’ve yet to see a kanji with 生 on top.
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And you won’t see one. Of the nineteen kanji in which 生 appears, it always appears on the bottom, or the right. Or the bottom-right.
The only one that could be considered an exception is 甦, and I’m not sure that counts.
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