[SOLVED] Tracking homonyms

[Digital_Larry]

It struck me this morning when I learned a new reading “kitsu” (don’t even remember what it means) that I hadn’t seen before. Made me think that it might be nice when learning the 100th thing that is pronounced “kou” or “shou” or “ki” or whatever, please show me a list of things I’ve already learned which sound like this. It’s not like I will get more confused.

Certain kanji combinations of kunyomi/onyomi seem to be devised to make space for another word that could have been a homonym (at the word level combining more than 1 kanji), and then there are some unavoidable collisions. Seems like these are just as worthwhile to point out as “visually similar Kanji”. Sorry can’t think of any specific examples at the moment.

DL

[Kazzeon]

Reconsider.

[Digital_Larry]

Hahaha OK. But you get the point. Maybe offer a “293 homonyms” link?

[Kazzeon]

Would this help?

A tool to show useful aggregated data based on your WK level (homonyms, frequency, part of speech, ...)

the kanji for 着く (i’m using it every day) is also used for 着る (very common, too). it also appears in related and very common words like 到着、着陸 and so on, so you’re likely to see it multiple times every day. 付く is less visible, because the number of related words with high frequency is lower. it’s also an extremely common auxiliary verb, for words like 思いつく、気づくand so on, but is then usually written in kana. so that means that, while 付くis by orders of magnitude the more common word, 着 is way more …

Apparently this shows them when you get them wrong or something.

[Userscript] ConfusionGuesser

This is a third-party script and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. ConfusionGuesser General script installation instructions Open Framework installation ConfusionGuesser Recommended: activate “Use IDS” in the settings menu (see screenshots below) What does it do? If you give a wrong answer during a review, this script guesses which other WK items you confused the question with and displa…

[Digital_Larry]

I do use confusion guesser, but it usually guesses the wrong one I was confused about! I mean, it only shows one possibility, so how is it supposed to know? I’ll look at the other one, thanks!

DL

[woeroboros]

WaniKani Homophone Explorer

i think this might be what you want? i also like having access to that info and this is pretty unobtrusive. it’s also easy to modify so that it shows up on kanji pages as well as vocab

[Digital_Larry]

I have tried the Homophone Explorer plugin and can’t tell what it’s doing. Per the description it only applies to Vocabulary so maybe I haven’t come across any vocabulary yet that qualifies. I was thinking more down at the individual kanji level. Has anyone used this recently and seen it working?

In other news, I found the option on “Confusion Guesser” to show all the matches for your wrong answer instead of just one.

DL

[woeroboros]

right, in order to make it work on individual kanji i had to make a couple tiny changes.

from

	let items = await wkof.ItemData.get_items({wk_items: {filters: {item_type: `voc`}}});

to

	let items = await wkof.ItemData.get_items({wk_items: {filters: {item_type: `kan, voc`}}});

and from

	wkItemInfo.forType(`vocabulary`).under(`reading`).appendSideInfo(`Homophones`, o => {

to

	wkItemInfo.forType(`kanji, vocabulary`).under(`reading`).appendSideInfo(`Homophones`, o => {

however, if you’re not seeing it on vocabulary pages either then something must be wrong. it works for me and shows up in the reading section on a given vocabulary page.

[Digital_Larry]

I’ll try it. Thanks!

[Edit: I see it now. It was a combination of not knowing where to look and not having a vocab which has a homophone (I didn’t expect it from the longer vocab words/phrases). Thanks again! ]

DL