Did they just change the radical for spikes? Have I gone crazy? I can swear it wasn’t like this 7 hours ago?
Was this not the old one or am I suffering from mandela effect x9000
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It was definitely changed, I just noticed it too today.
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Thank you for the confirmation =)
Whut, yeah that’s definitely different!
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It’s just a bit taller now. Like in 並 it’s very tall compared to 業. I wouldn’t say that it’s completely different since some kanji tend to bend the parts a bit.
The new look might even communicate the stroke order better.
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Yeah, it’s just taller.
This radical you’ve drawn:
is “triceratops” with “ground” underneath. “Spikes” always had five strokes.
(And more to the point, it’s now the actual Unicode character rather than an image.)
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Well spotted! There’s a little more information in this update. “Spikes” isn’t the only radical we changed to a unicode character, but it’s definitely the most noticeable.
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Wow - that really threw me off just now during my reviews 
My reaction was like: if I dont remember ever seeing this before and now am to master it only - what chance do I stand at WK overall? 
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So frustrating because I was at the review that would have burned it when I saw the change for the first time :')))
Yeah, they have been waiting for you to get there so they could roll out the change 
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I understand your frustration but at the end of the day learning kanji/Japanese is a long journey. A burned item doesn’t mean anything more or less in terms of your Japanese knowledge. At least now you have a reason to remember spikes as the radical/kanji that was changed ^ - ^