There has been a thread on this before , but that is now archived and so I can’t reply there. Anyway, here I am, in level 5, and I recently learnt the radical 里 as sunflower. Today, I was out and about and I saw 里 on a menu! Great, I thought, I know that one! Turns out 里 is not sunflower at all. …

This bothers me too. But usually the real kanji is taught in the same level as the identical radical, so it’s not a big deal, I just add it as a synonym.

I don’t check for kanji. :joy: If the radical is on the last page of the lesson as a stand alone kanji or vocab then I cross check the meaning, just to not be confused, but I learn the suggested radical name anyway and learn the “real” meaning when WaniKani brings me there. This is usually in the s…

You can trust WK, and you can trust me. That’s why you should vote for me, Gsai, for congress.

I’ve never assumed that learning a radical meant learning a kanji. Even learning a kanji does not mean learning a word. Take 約 , for instance. The kanji means “promise”, but the word means “about”. Don’t forget that a kanji carries an idea but has no meaning by itself. Same goes for radicals, espec…

marcusp: As for scripts and things, I wouldn’t even know where to start! You can start here and here . You can also take a look at the WaniKani / API and Third-Party Apps category of the forums.

I totally forgot about the radicals WK straight up makes up, like the one for “hick”. Now that i just dont understand.

For most radicals, the window where you might be confused is pretty small, since you’ll learn the kanji a few days later, assuming you’re doing your lessons regularly. There’s a couple exceptions, where the kanji comes many levels later… After the mid-teens, a lot of the radicals are from kanji yo…

gatch: And afaik, although WK claims to use mnemonics for learning they dont say they change radical names for the sake of mnemonic learning. I’m too lazy to look for it (I just know @Leebo seemed frustrated to say the least), but in one of the endless complain-about-radicals threads Koichi …

gatch: I totally forgot about the radicals WK straight up makes up, like the one for “hick”. Now that i just dont understand. There aren’t enough kangxi radicals to make complete mnemonics out of them… So what else can you do if you want to make mnemonics?

Isn’t there also the issue that each kanji is traditionally only associated with one radical? I think I remember seeing you say something to that effect before anyway, @Leebo . If WK tried to tie them to other traditional radicals, that would possibly cause future confusion when trying to use a Japan…

Sunflower - - 里

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dianarz March 21, 2018, 4:39pm 28

You can start here and here. You can also take a look at the WaniKani / API and Third-Party Apps category of the forums.

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Sunflower - - 里

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