Hi, I often find myself wishing I had a tool which would help me memorize the differences between kanjis that are easily mixed up. These could be visually similar kanji (for example, https://www.wanikani.com/kanji/%E4%BB%A3 and https://www.wanikani.com/kanji/%E4%BB%98 ) or kanjis with very close mea…

Something like the self study script with the visually similar kanji filter? [image] [Userscript] Self-Study Quiz API And Third-Party Apps WaniKani Self-Study Quiz A new version of the Wanikani Self-Study Quiz has arrived! warning This is a third-party scrip…

There is also [image] [Userscript] ConfusionGuesser API And Third-Party Apps This is a third-party script and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. ConfusionGuesser Genera…

Honestly I think that selecting visually similar kanji through Item Inspector is a better experience than my filter

That’s a great tool! Thank you very much!

I see, I just vaguely remembered that the filter existed and thought “that sounds applicable, let’s suggest that”

although I don’t think it helps with visually similar kanji… I’ve been really impressed with how well Confusion Guesser does on visually similar kanji. In addition to being really helpful when you put the kunyomi instead of onyomi or whatever, if you get something wrong because of interference f…

I use Item Inspector to display side-by-side items that I confuse. The procedure is Select the All Learn Items table. This ensures that the search will cover all items for which I have take a lesson. Use one of the search filters in the temporary filter dropdown box. This will display the items th…

I use both ConfusionGuesser (linked above) and [Userscript] Niai 似合い Visually Similar Kanji (adds a MUCH more detailed section to lesson pages and kanji pages with list of visually similar kanji) to try to help during lessons / reviews and for review just after failing an item during a review. I al…

Seconding the Niai script. That’s my primary tool for this. If I notice that I’m getting two kanji mixed up, I try to take a moment to look at them together with the Niai script and figure out a way to differentiate them. One thing about this is that different people will get different kanji confus…

Thank you everyone for the suggestions! I’ll be trying them all out as soon as I can! =)

Tool for training at distinguishing similar kanji

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NicoleIsEnough November 8, 2022, 2:04pm 3

There is also

although I don’t think it helps with visually similar kanji…

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Tool for training at distinguishing similar kanji

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