Just a heads-up that we’ve gone through replacing some of the images we used to represent radicals with their equivalent unicode characters. This is because characters load more quickly than images, and look more consistent with other radicals. Unlike images, you can also copy and paste them if ever you want to. Plus, it’s just generally considered good practice to use unicode characters whenever possible.
The following radicals now have unicode characters rather than images:
Character
Radical
𠂉
Gun
丨
Stick
丆
Leaf
𠆢
Hat
⺌
Triceratops
丷
Horns
业
Spikes
龸
Viking
𠃌
Cape
⺤
Cleat
龹
Gladiator
𡗗
Spring
㑒
Squid
𦰩
Chinese
㠯
Bear
龷
Blackjack
𠫓
Trash
㦮
Bar
𭕄
Grass
袁
Zombie
𠦝
Morning
丞
Coral
巩
Saw
Most of these look identical or almost identical. The only exception is “Spikes”, which now looks more like it does in kanji.
Also note that “Saw” has a Japanese and Chinese form. In the list above, it’s showing up in the Japanese form 巩, but on WaniKani it should display in the Chinese form, as below, because that’s much closer to how the radical actually appears in the kanji we teach on WaniKani:
We weren’t able to replace all images simply because there aren’t unicode characters that resemble certain radicals closely enough.
Not sure how this one works in the main website, but it’s supposed to be a language-dependent glyph by Han unification, and moreover, Chinese variant, if used in 築 or 恐.
Anyway, it looks wrong here in WaniKani Community.
Thanks for pointing that out. 巩 should show up as follows on WaniKani because we specifically display this one in Simplified Chinese:
Here on the forum it displays in its Japanese form. Both are correct, but the Chinese version looks much more like the form it takes in the kanji we teach on WaniKani. I’ll add a note to the original post!
Hi - thanks for letting us know. Seeing the background of how you make these kinds of decisions for the platform are really fascinating. Appreciate the transparency .
Would it be worth including a note on the radical page for spikes about its previous form, for anyone who learned it in the past and is trying to determine what changed? Thanks!
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