Pretty sure there is an error in the example sentence for 入り江
It is written as follows:
バルト海の北の入江で知らない人からプロポーズされたんですが、とてもロマンチックだったのでつい承諾してしまったんです。
Fun sentence, but I think you probably want to have the word learned written the way it was learned in the sentence You’ve written 入江 instead of 入り江. 入江 is usually a name, often pronounced いのえ, though sometimes also pronounced いりえ like the vocab word. Whether or not the word can occasionally drop the okurigana I can’t promise, but I’m pretty sure if you google 入江 you’re going to exclusively come up with images of people, not inlets. I would guess you guys want it to be consistent, having the word written in the example sentence the same way it is taught.
My dictionary has it being written either way, with 入り江 being more common (I think no okurigana in the middle is an older way of writing such words, but you still see it sometimes even in modern writings)
On the one hand, it’s taught as 入り江 so it should probably be written that way in the example(s), but on the other hand, it can be written more than one way so it’s nice to get the exposure
This is very common in Japanese where some characters are dropped but the pronunciation remains the same. Both are correct and mean the same thing. This “gotcha” has helped you learn more about the word and I bet you will never forget it now.
It’s actually very beneficial to recognise these words, because in the wild there may not be a preferred version. 入り+X words tend to have this. Even 入り口。
Fair enough. I thought maybe the use of okurigana was optional, but I’m still a little surprised by everyone saying it’s actually more common without the okurigana. Just googling 入江 pulls up exclusively results for people, and googling 入り江 brings up exclusively results for inlets.
Even if 入江 is more common, I still think WaniKani would want to have the word appear in the form it is taught in the example sentence right? Maybe not? Maybe it’s a bonus to introduce the alternate spelling?
I will bring this up to the content team to see if they want to make any changes to the context sentence or maybe add more sentences. Thanks for bringing this up. I will include all of your discussion as well!
So, I let the content team know about 入り江 and they changed the first context sentence to reflect the way we teach the word. We then added two new context sentences that also include 入江.
Thanks again everyone for your thoughtful input on this one!
Man, I love it when words have three or more context sentences, thanks so much. Let the content team know I really read them all and they aren’t just wasting there time
Edit: I’m worried this could sound sarcastic, it’s not, it is incredibly sincere. Words with more context sentences makes me really really happy.
I’ve noticed this with google search as well. When the search term contains only kanji, image search tends to return Chinese results. One workaround is to insert some kana in the search term.
For example, instead of 入江, if I use 入江の船 as the search term, the pictures Google returns are those of inlets.
Mmm; I like to just drop の into the search string, since any Japanese text is bound to include it somewhere. Searching for ‘入江 の’ gets a mix of people and inlets, which makes sense.
You’ve written 入江 instead of 入り江. 入江 is usually a name, often pronounced いのえ, though sometimes also pronounced いりえ like the vocab word. Whether or not the word can occasionally drop the okurigana I can’t promise, but I’m pretty sure if you google 入江 you’re going to exclusively come up with images of people, not inlets. I would guess you guys want it to be consistent, having the word written in the example sentence the same way it is taught.
