The Return of Wanikani 四字熟語

偽了途中
ぎりょうとちゅう
Realizing that reaching level 60 doesn’t mean you’re done.

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I like that, especially the 偽 kanji.

Being uninhibited by any actual vocab knowledge, making up words is fun (and educational!)

完了焼家
かんりょうしょうか
Member of the 100% burn club.

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Very nice!

I am lost :smiley:

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何千等字
なんぜんとうじ
Thousands of similar symbols

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I thought of a bunch of them at work today:

心身鰐蟹 しんしんわにかに – pure devotion
十六万歳 じゅうろくばんざい – our rallying cry
小食大犬 しょうしょくだいけん – small bite for a big wolf, getting @Leebo’d (in some ancient texts is written 一噛一犬 いっこいっけん )
大犬小犬 たいけんしょうけん – getting a “like” from @Leebo
一字一会 いちじいちえ – a chance encounter with a special kanji

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The on’yomi for 犬 is けん :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you. :slight_smile: I wrote them in my head at work. I like how けん sounds better.

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maybe make one with stay cool and lost?

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底亀無亀ていきむき

When you reach Durtle Heaven, and there’s nothing there…

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Y E S ! Y E S S! ! ! 10 characters

(いっ)()()() one pony two masters, refers to Wanikani’s other programming crew that we depend so much on, @rfindley and company

:slight_smile:

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I love the PDF. Already made it into a little booklet - but only wire-o binding, not even close to the nice handmade book in the forum.

One thing I’d like to ask: one of my favourite wk extension is the font changer - this way I’m not just getting an overall impression of the kanji, but especially with the handwriting fonts you have to be able to write the kanji if you want read them. So, could you please , please make another PDF using one of these nice classical calligraphical kanji fonts?

My eternal gratitude is waiting to be cast onto you :slight_smile:

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Yes, but this is not nearly done yet! Wait until final version! I am still fixing lots of imperfections.

I will post two versions, one calligraphic, one not.

So coming back to this, I’m 99% sure this is incorrect.

Like I said above, the long vowel mark gets rotated, but the kanji for “one” does not.

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I see handwritten text all of the time with the “ichi” written up and down.

Then why have I been beating myself up so badly on this?!?!?!?!?!

I just opened some books, and found the ichis not rotated.
What the hell is wrong with me? Holy cow.
@Belthazar, you have just uncovered some giant missing gap of brain cells in my head.
I am such a nit wit. I have put sooooooo much work into this. I have piles of code from this project and my last.
I have even managed to convince other people to rotate ichis.

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Well, I can’t speak for handwritten text (though I’d be willing to posit that maybe those were 1s. Or しs).

While you’re fixing stuff, mind, there appears to be a large space after every apostrophe. And the “and conversely” on the back side of page 30 is surplus to requirements. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I caught the apostrophe thing.

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Here is everything in the book so far.

{鰐頭蟹胴}{がくとうかいどう}{Head of an alligator, body of a crab}{Leebo}
{迅敗徐勝}{じんぱいじょしょう}{Failing going fast, winning going slowly (motto for team slow)}{Leebo}
{昼夜熱勉}{ちゅうやねつべん}{Passionate studying day and night (motto for team fast)}{Leebo}
{燃々亀々}{ねんねんきき}{Burn burn turtle turtle}{Leebo}
{音訓混同}{おんくんこんどう}{Mixing up onyomi and kunyomi}{Leebo}
{快苦死獄}{かいくしごく}{The first forty levels of WaniKani}{Leebo}
{天国現実}{てんごくげんじつ}{The last twenty levels of WaniKani}{Leebo}
{見答辞典}{みどうじてん}{Looking up answers on dictionary, cheating.}{VictorLino}
{変読成泣}{へんどくせっきゅう}{Strange readings make cry, jukugo that have unexpected readings.}{VictorLino}
{千新教訓}{せんしんきょうくん}{Being overwhelmed with new lessons (usually after level up).}{VictorLino}
{遅始要釈}{ちしようしゃく}{Demanding an explanation for the slow start}{Leebo}
{不用用可}{ふようようか}{Not useful, but could be useful}{Leebo}
{中止赤点}{ちゅうしあかてん}{Failing a test after taking a hiatus}{milkyrose}
{過迅失敗}{かじんしっぱい}{Speed-related typos}{LucasDesu}
{多問再始}{たもんさいし}{Overwhelmed by reviews, reset}{LucasDesu}
{進図自慢}{しんずじまん}{Bragging about ones progress with a graph}{LucasDesu}
{無探投稿}{むたんとうこう}{Creating a new topic without searching first}{LucasDesu}
{並直乱用}{へいちょくらんよう}{Re-order script abuse}{Houndstooth}
{読書混同}{よみかきこんどう}{Mixing up reading and meaning when answering the quiz.}{jneapan}
{例外馴染}{れいがいなじみ}{Getting used to exceptions.}{jneapan}
{読二答一}{どくにとういつ}{Read twice, answer once.}{Kazzeon}
{古宇偉知}{こういち}{Fill your empty head with great knowledge}{Belthazar}
{復習一過}{ふくしゅういっか}{The calm following a review storm, that no-reviews-coming break you get after a big batch of reviews}{Kqaotix}
{復習暗殺}{ふくしゅうあんさつ}{When that huge review batch comes in from clearing a review backlog ages ago}{Houndstooth}
{復習回避}{ふくしゅうかいひ}{Evasion of reviews (by going to the forums)}{TamanegiNoKame}
{全遊無働}{ぜんゆうむどう}{All play and no work}{TamanegiNoKame}
{多喋少習}{たちょうしょうしゅう}{Much chatter, little learning}{Saruko}
{漢字和語}{かんじなごかた}{Learning Chinese characters that have ancient chinese readings as well as modern Japanese ones in order to understand modern Japanese.}{TamanegiNoKame}
{知字不聞}{ちじふぶん}{Knowing a word in the context of reading, because you studied it on WaniKani, but not recognizing it in conversation.}{Houndstooth}
{知読不意}{ちどくふい}{Being able to read the kanji in a word, but not knowing the meaning.}{Houndstooth}
{知意不読}{ちいぶどく}{Being able to understand a word written in kanji, but not knowing how it’s read.}{Houndstooth}
{撫子病気}{なでしこびょうき}{When you idealize your Japanese girlfriend to an unhealthy extent and think it makes you an important person.}{milkyrose}
{千年禁瓜}{せんねんきんか}{Thousand year melon ban.}{RoseWagsBlue and jneapan}
{雑話変更}{ざつわへんこう}{When the conversation on a particular thread starts getting sidelined}{TamanegiNoKame}
{過話無働}{かわむどう}{Spending too much time on the forums instead of working}{jneapan}
{変色混乱}{へんいろこんらん}{When the new color scheme is very controversial.}{VictorLino}
{起深夜寝}{きしんやしん}{Waking up in the dead of the night to do your reviews and then going back to sleep.}{VictorLino}
{偽了途中}{ぎりょうとちゅう}{Realizing that reaching level 60 doesn’t mean you’re done.}{rwesterhof}
{完了焼家}{かんりょうしょうか}{Member of the 100% burn club.}{rwesterhof}
{何千等字}{なんぜんとうじ}{Thousands of similar symbols}{PDotAlex}
{心身鰐蟹}{しんしんわにかに}{Pure devotion}{RoseWagsBlue}
{十六万歳}{じゅうろくばんざい}{Our rallying cry}{RoseWagsBlue}
{小食大犬 }{しょうしょくだいけん}{Small bite for a big wolf, getting Leebo’d }{RoseWagsBlue}
{大犬小犬}{たいけんしょうけん}{Getting a “like” from Leebo}{RoseWagsBlue}
{一字一会 }{ いちじいちえ}{Chance encounter with a special kanji}{RoseWagsBlue}
{底亀無亀}{ていきむき}{When you reach Durtle Heaven, and there’s nothing there…}{Belthazar}
{一駒二師}{いっくにし}{Wankikani’s \emph{other} programing crew}{RoseWagsBlue}

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