Hi everyone! Was just doing some lessons instead of paying attention in class (haha…) and thought about how great it would be to have a sum up of the visually similar kanjis to the one you are currently learning, while you are doing the lesson. This would be super useful, at least for my part - I …

I think that would be a very useful feature too!

That misses any kanji which are visually similar in ways unrelated to the phonetic component, and I think OP’s point is that they want WK to display their visually similar kanji information during lessons - they’re not asking for a script. I have to say though that if they did this they’d really ne…

[image] Radish8: I have to say though that if they did this they’d really need to step up their game in terms of identifying visually similar kanji. I agree, but identifying visually similar kanji is also something that is not 100% scientific. That is, different people will have different opi…

Ah, definitely agree there, both that it’s not objective and that you don’t want to go too crazy. But I think most people would concur that currently they ‘identify’ way too few (many have no matches). I almost never find my items of confusion listed.

if you got a kanji like 待 and need to tell it apart from 持、特、時 and so on, then having an extra explanation page with the left-side radicals in red helps. wk doesn’t deliver though. get a script for similar kanji, i know there’s one somewhere. wk is exceptionally weak in the lesson department anywa…

There’s a script for that: [Userscript] Niai 似合い Visually Similar Kanji

[image] plantron: I agree, but identifying visually similar kanji is also something that is not 100% scientific. That is, different people will have different opinions about what looks similar. Though I completely agree that finding kanjis similar is 100% subjective, WaniKani already have a s…

[image] OmukaiAndi: if you got a kanji like 待 and need to tell it apart from 持、特、時 and so on, then having an extra explanation page with the left-side radicals in red helps. lmfao those are exactly the ones that made me think about the features. good guess!! but yes that’s 100% the idea, and …

I’m doing my level 58 lessons and just thought the same exact thing. Even if it wouldn’t help me much now I figured I’d go post about it, but it looks like someone did it for me just a few weeks ago! I’d love to see the Visually Similar Kanji data displayed during lessons. It’s possible the data ne…

Visually similar kanji in the lessons?

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rever4217 February 14, 2020, 11:27am 3

Doesn’t semantic-phonetic composition already do this?

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Visually similar kanji in the lessons?

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