WaniKani Content Additions: Ongoing from April 29, 2021

[nickromeo93]

Just want to say I love that you guys are adding stuff. I hope you guys continue to do this til at least all of the JLPT 1 Kanji are covered as when I am reading manga like Deathnote and Demonslayer I still come across quite a few kanji that are not apart of WK. Albeit not many, but I love how Wanikani helps solidify kanji into my brain and it’s harder to memorize kanji from reading exposure alone. Thankyou for these new additions

[TofuguJenny]

いち is definitely a useful reading for 市! We’re actually planning to add 錦市場 to a much higher level, but we’ll look into adding something to teach the いち reading earlier on

[jonmoxley]

I suggest that 繋(つな)がる、揃(そろ)う and their respective Kanjis get added in.

[Lahoje]

@jonmoxley

繋(つな)がる

Agreed!

Most recent non-WK kanji you've learned?

Good job! A while ago I did some statistics based on the The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese to find the most common vocab with non-WK kanji and 繋がる was indeed the top one! Well actually it was a bit messy because the BCCWJ always use the kanji form of words in there frequency list, so the actual top one were all dumb stuff like この、その、ここ、ある etc in kanji. But after manually removing all those kind of word (marked “usually written in kana alone” on jisho), the list was the follo…

[onryu]

Just randomly commenting to say, nice to meet you Mr. Moxley

[jonmoxley]

Thought I’d drop by here after an easy title defence against Karl Anderson to get my Kanji down pat, I’d have to return to Japan to defend the IWGP US Championship eventually!

[Saimin]

@jonmoxley

I suggest that 繋(つな)がる、揃(そろ)う and their respective Kanjis get added in.

both of these seem to be N2.
i’ve encountered 揃そろう as well and added it to my Anki deck.

[DIO-Berry]

Can I suggest adding “old people” and “elderly people” to the allow list for 老人(ろうじん)? @Mods

[adamstan]

+42 for inclusion of 繋ぐ and/or 繋がる - I really like those words, the idea of “connection”. And besides, those are essential words for hand-holding scenes in all romance manga/anime/VNs

[TofuguJenny]

Thanks for the suggestions! We’ll plan to add 繋がる, 繋ぐ, 揃う and 揃える in the future, and we’ve added “old people” and “elderly people” to the allow list for 老人

[Saimin]

@adamstan

繋ぐ and/or 繋がる

Though apparently both of these are usually written in kana. But i suppose they’re written in kanji in a lot of cases as well.

[adamstan]

While reading VNs, I think I encountered both forms equally often.

[evandcs]

the main front page still shows 6000 words and 2000 kanji

after these additions, what is the total now? isn’t it time to change the front page as well?

[est_fills_cando]

WaniKani currently has 484 radicals, 2063 kanji, and 6414 vocabulary words. I think they said they might remove some of the existing kanji after the new kanji are added, though. I would guess that it’s probably easier for them them to just give rough numbers on the homepage than to have to update it every time they change something.

[plantron]

@TofuguJenny

we’ve added “old people” and “elderly people” to the allow list for 老人

please also add “ok boomer”

just kidding tho don’t do that…

[fallynleaf]

@popetron

please also add “ok boomer”

just kidding tho don’t do that…

Now if 若造(わかぞう) was a word on WK, maybe “ok boomer” would work as a synonym. DDT wrestler Mao thinks it matches the vibe he’s going for with that team name:

(Mao designed this shirt for fun, but it was instantly so popular with DDT’s foreign fans, they made it available to buy internationally)

[MegaZeroX]

Wait isn’t 若造 like the opposite, used for young people? Goo has:

若者や未熟者をあざけっていう語

Speaking of which, 嘲 would be a good addition to WK. It’s even jouyou

[Saimin]

Yes, 若造 is youngster. I guess a youngster would say “OK Boomer”. And it’s just a trendy phrase you want to put on a shirt. But i was also confused by this.
Wait, maybe this is a dialogue? An old person says “youngster”, the young person responds “Ok Boomer”. That would make sense.

[fallynleaf]

@MegaZeroX

Wait isn’t 若造 like the opposite, used for young people?

@Saimin

Yes, 若造 is youngster. I guess a youngster would say “OK Boomer”. And it’s just a trendy phrase you want to put on a shirt. But i was also confused by this.
Wait, maybe this is a dialogue? An old person says “youngster”, the young person responds “Ok Boomer”. That would make sense.

Yes, 若造 are people who would say “ok boomer.” the context is that Mao made the shirt specifically for a team of younger, inexperienced wrestlers who were facing a few older wrestlers (including Sanshiro Takagi, the president of the company). Mr Haku, who does translation work for DDT as the DDT/TJPW English Update account on twitter, translated the 若造 team as the “ok boomers” (and he translated the team of the older wrestlers as the “big boomers”, so the feud was the ok boomers vs the big boomers). I believe that translation choice came after Mao himself started using the phrase for the team. He knows some English and spent some time wrestling in the UK, plus has English-speaking friends, so I’m sure he picked up the “ok boomers” phrase at some point and thought it was funny.

The first iteration of this design was just a few custom shirts that he printed for himself and the other wrestlers on the “ok boomers” team to wear to shows (in Japan), but the posts about the shirts on twitter sort of took off among DDT’s international fanbase, so they uploaded the design to their international store so that fans could order it on shirts, too.

[plantron]

Hi @TofuguJenny can you also add “to hide something” to 隠す because it’s transitive and distinct from “to hide from something”.