Hello, I was wondering, where do you find the names of radicals on the website ? Because, it seems to be have an official name for each one of them so i’m confusing names between WK and the dictionnary. For example : ⺌ (しょうかんむり) is “Small” officially and on WK, it’s name is “Triceratops”, isn’t …

The WK ones purposely have silly names in order to better craft a mnemonic story around them. Also while a lot of the radical used here do correspond with official radicals, there are a bunch of WK specific ones as well. Sometimes radicals that are treated as separate outside of WK, are treated as o…

I see ! Well, that will not help me, ha ha, because i started to memorize the official names and coming with the new system on WK makes me feel a little lost. Well, i’ll try to concentrate my mind on the website ! Thank you.

What you could do is go to each radical and click on “add synonym” and add whatever you want, if you wish to only use the official ones.

are you telling me i can customize my mnemonics and using my own system on WK ?

Yes, for instance I added “one” to “ground” and “al bundy” to national treasure, you can create your own answers if you wish.

Excellent ! So, the problem seems to be resolved like this ! Thank you, you saved my life !

It would be nice if they didn’t make up their own radicals or radical names.

The choice about the name's radical

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Belthazar August 8, 2019, 12:47pm 4

Well, if you’re at all interested in knowing how WaniKani’s radicals compare, I made dis.

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