Thursday November 27 2025 Content Updates

Radicals

Fat (3) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Bright (3) - Added radical illustration.

Angle (5) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Color (5) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

East (6) - Added radical illustration.

Capital (8) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Yurt (9) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Spring (9) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Spicy (9) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Jammed In (9) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Gladiator (9) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Correct (9) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Cleat (9) - Added “spike,” “stud,” and “spikes” to the warning list, updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Straight (10) - Changed the primary meaning from “fix” to “straight,” moved “fix” to the warning list, added radical illustration, and updated the mnemonic.

Alcohol (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Beans (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Bundle (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Chinese (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Dynamite (10) - Added “TNT” to the warning list, and added radical illustration.

Fault (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Geoduck (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Kiss (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Landslide (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Music (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Sell (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Sick (10) - Added radical illustration.

Stairs (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Tombstone (10) - Added radical illustration.

Turkey (10) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Bear (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Blackjack (11) - Added radical illustration.

Drunkard (11) - Added radical illustration.

Escalator (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Few (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Humble (11) - Updated the mnemonic.

Older Brother (11) - Added “big bro” to the allow list, updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Orders (11) - Added “napoleon” to the warning list, updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Root (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Simple (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Skin (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Sound (11) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Trash (11) - Added radical illustration.

Beforehand (12) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Business (12) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Crab (12) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Jackhammer (12) - Added radical illustration.

Request (12) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Tofu (12) - Added radical illustration.

Together (12) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Yoga (12) - Updated the mnemonic, and added radical illustration.

Kanji

(3) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(5) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(5) - Added “big bro” to the allow list.

(9) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(10) - Changed the radical components to “straight,” changed the primary meaning to “straight,” moved “fix” to be an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(10) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, and reading hint.

(10) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(12) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(13) - Added (11) to the visually similar kanji list.

(22) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(22) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(40) - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.

(44) - Added “sand pear,” “Japanese pear,” “Korean pear,” and “Asian pear” to the allow list, and updated the meaning mnemonic and meaning hint.

Vocabulary

(4) - Added なん to the warning list.

中東 (8) - Updated the reading explanation.

東京 (8) - Updated the reading explanation.

聞く (10) - Updated the meaning explanation and reading explanation.

直行 (12) - Updated the primary meaning to “going directly,” moved “nonstop” to the alternate meanings, moved “going straight” and “go straight” to the warning list, and updated the meaning and reading explanations.

正直 (13) - Updated the meaning and reading explanations.

直す (15) - Updated the meaning explanation.

問い合わせる (16) - Added “to enquire about something,” “to make an inquiry,” “to make an enquiry,” “to seek information,” “to ask for information,” “to request information,” “to ask about,” and “to ask about something” to the allow list.

問う (25) - Added “to ask” as an alternative meaning, added “to inquire about,” “to inquire after,” “to inquire after something,” “to enquire,” “to enquire about,” “to enquire about something,” “to enquire after,” “to enquire after something,” “to call into question,” and “to call something into question” to the allow list, added “to blame for,” “to blame someone for,” “to accuse of,” “to accuse someone of,” “to charge with,” “to charge someone with,” “to care about,” “to care about something,” “to be concerned with,” and “to be concerned with something” to the warning list, added “to invite” to the block list and updated the meaning explanation and reading explanation.

教授 (26) - Changed the primary meaning to “professor”, moved “teaching” to be an alternative meaning, added “teach,” “teaching staff,” “instruct,” “instructing,” “instruction,” “full professor,” “full prof,” “university professor,” “university prof,” “uni professor,” “uni prof,” “college professor,” and “college prof” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

尋ねる (31) - Updated the meaning explanation.

直径 (31) - Updated the meaning explanation.

垂直 (33) - Updated the meaning explanation.

伸びる (36) - Added “to increase” as an alternative meaning, added “to get longer” and “to expand” to the allow list, added “to grow” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, added fifteen common word combinations, and added one context sentence translation.

伺う (41) - Updated the meaning explanation.

球威 (43) - Updated one context sentence translation.

(44) - Added “Asian pear” as an alternative meaning, added “sand pear,” “Japanese pear,” and “Korean pear” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and added three context sentence translations.

硬直 (45) - Updated the meaning explanation.

顕彰 (54) - Added “commending” as an alternative meaning, added “commendation” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and added three context sentence translations.

Additions and movements

Check out this separate forum post to see additions and movements that were also made this week!

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