Just a heads-up, we’ll be adding some new items to WaniKani over the course of next seven weeks. The first batch will be going live next week — August 9th, 2023.
As usual, there won’t be any site downtime, and you don’t need to do anything to get the new items. Just wait, and they will show up in your lessons if you’re on the level of the item or above.
Here’s a list of the new additions as well as the related movement items. Happy studying!
Interesting. I checked another dictionary (国語辞書) and there “meek, obedient” don’t even show up. Weird
Thanks for double-checking!
EDIT: I also had a look at 代金 out of curiosity and while there is some overlap with 値段, I get the feeling that the contexts in which 値段 and 代金 would be used are a little different.
EDICT based, I’m guessing? I wouldn’t recommend reading anything into the ordering of senses in the EDICT definition of a word – there is nothing in the editorial policy that says ordering of definitions matters. (In fact I wouldn’t recommend it for any dictionary unless you know the specific ordering principle, if any, it uses. The Oxford English Dictionary is “oldest first”, for instance, which often means the first few senses are obsolete or archaic.)
Thanks for bringing this up! I absolutely found it challenging to choose a definition for 代金. We have various synonyms like you listed and more, and they don’t always have perfect English equivalents, which was the case for 代金 too. It could be translated to price, cost, fee, payment, charge, etc., depending on the context.
The source you shared mainly talks about whether the word represents price as in value or whether it represents the cost you’re paying in return for getting something, but I think there are various perspectives we could use to argue what could be the most accurate definition of 代金. My concern about “cost” was that 代金 doesn’t have the meaning of “expense” (which is what comes to my mind when I hear “cost”), for example. But now you mentioned this, I realized that there are a few synonyms that we already teach on WaniKani and it would be nice to differentiate them with the primary meaning, or at least add an extra note in the meaning explanation. I’ll work on that. Thanks!
Are there (also, have there been) any deletions of content items to go along with the additions? In other words, is the overall number of items just increasing, or are there also deletions to balance things out?
Do deletions normally get announced like additions/movements?
