The same mnemonic is used for both すう and す

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Generally I’ve noticed that WK is smart enough to make long and short sounds have separate mnemonics. E.g.

  • とう is Tokyo and と is toe.
  • どう is dough or donut (I think?) and ど is dog.

But for some inexplicable reason, both すう and す are sue??? See hyperlinks in previous sentence for examples.

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+1 from me on this.

I find the short-long vowel distinction one of the hardest things in wk to tackle.

Maybe sueing could be long but Sue short? But the existing stories make use of both.

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Or the long one could be soon… or suit… or sookie sookie now.

Or maybe… soup?

I’ve finally reached the point in my progression where I often make my own mnemonics. So I think I’m going with soup. Maybe even this which will probably create more outrageous scenes in my head, which I’ve found are easier to remember.

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すう is actually a pretty rare reading. There’s 数, words that include 数, and 吸う and… that’s kind of it for common words with すう。

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I also found:

https://www.wanikani.com/kanji/枢

https://www.wanikani.com/kanji/崇

But yeah I agree it’s rare.

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I’ll bring this up with the content team, thanks!

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A similar issue: https://community.wanikani.com/t/sauce-is-phoneticized-differently-in-two-mnemonics-さす-vs-そそ

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Guess what!

Thanks to your comment, all すう items (there are three of them) now use “soup” as the keyword in mnemonics stories.

Soup’s on!

An example here:

Please enjoy the rest of your day!

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Woohoo! Gonna go eat some soup and cancel my plans to sue the crabigator. Thanks!

10

Love the continued support.