Thursday August 27 2026 Content Updates

Are there any ways to see the old mnemonics?

I have one big complaint — that changing mnemonics really affects the study.

When you are using WaniKani for studying over a long period of time (1–2 years), you’ve already gotten used to that mnemonic for すう being “sue”. And suddenly it changed to “soup”.

You forgot the reading for one kanji, and you are not able to recall it correctly — because the mnemonic changed. If you want to start associating it with “soup”, you need to re-study other kanjis with the すう reading, which isn’t helpful at all and only wastes your time.

So at least it would be great if you could keep some button/toggle where you can see the old mnemonic for recently changed kanji/radicals.

Thank you!