# What is your longest leech? **URL:** \ **Category:** WaniKani\ **Created:** [August 18, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083 "2021-08-18T04:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![deejayyp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/deejayyp/32/462810_2.png) [@deejayyp](https://community.wanikani.com/u/deejayyp)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/21 "2021-08-18T08:29:24Z")
Yessss, I feel your pain, bud. ---
**Author:** ![Nemuitanuki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/nemuitanuki/32/448041_2.png) [@Nemuitanuki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Nemuitanuki)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/22 "2021-08-18T10:05:35Z")
係わる か **か** わる Not か **く** わる Everytime ---
**Author:** ![relie](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@relie](https://community.wanikani.com/u/relie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 10:34am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/23 "2021-08-18T10:34:04Z")
WK’s loading animation helped me with 考 haha! ---
**Author:** ![scallions](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/scallions/32/510698_2.png) [@scallions](https://community.wanikani.com/u/scallions)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/24 "2021-08-18T16:23:06Z")
This actually happened to me about a week ago, haha. ---
**Author:** ![Tsumabuki\_Raito](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tsumabuki_raito/32/439575_2.png) [@Tsumabuki\_Raito](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Tsumabuki_Raito)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/25 "2021-08-18T16:42:11Z")
用いる - Because there’s something about using mochi that doesn’t stick to my brain. Unless you call your brain mochi and try to use it to remember this reading 🙃 Longest leech is 三日, just because some of the days seem so arbitrary. If I used Japanese in my daily life, I would probably remember this better. ---
**Author:** ![Redglare](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/redglare/32/717152_2.png) [@Redglare](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Redglare)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/26 "2021-08-18T17:06:49Z")
> [@deejaybee11](#): > > Have you got any vocab or kanji that have hung around like a bad smell for way too long? Sure 🙂 Like this one: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/a/c/8/ac8577201310a0685af18f44d97f9ff03bcce770.png) And what’s so special about this one, you might ask… Last time I checked it was the item I’ve reviewed the most amount of times: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/5/7/657791d8d2e991c4ee76e4e3f426a71953b9b009.png) Reason: I always got it mixed up with 承諾 (Consent) and 許諾 (Consent). ---
**Author:** ![Slowopoke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/slowopoke/32/441533_2.png) [@Slowopoke](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Slowopoke)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/27 "2021-08-18T17:12:59Z")
Honestly thread was a big leach for me at first even tho it was only in the level that it was in…for some reason I could NOT remember. I kept wanting to say it was the radical “spirit” even tho there is a radical for thread which is the same 😑 ---
**Author:** ![WeebPotato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/weebpotato/32/679291_2.png) [@WeebPotato](https://community.wanikani.com/u/WeebPotato)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/28 "2021-08-18T18:17:03Z")
> [@Nemuitanuki](#): > > 係わる > > か **か** わる > Not > > か **く** わる > > Everytime Wonder if the various “responsible people” words like 改札係 and 求職係 would help here, because they all end in がかり 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![evandcs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/evandcs/32/447480_2.png) [@evandcs](https://community.wanikani.com/u/evandcs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/29 "2021-08-18T18:18:56Z")
how do I check my longest leech? item inspector? ---
**Author:** ![Brand\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/brand_s/32/380508_2.png) [@Brand\_S](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Brand_S)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/30 "2021-08-18T19:03:04Z")
Not sure if it’ll help anyone else, but the best leech-breaker I’ve ever done is to handwrite. I write every new kanji at least eight times, and I try to write words I’m struggling with too. Sometimes I’ll make it more interesting for myself by imitating some [Japanese fonts](https://catalog.monotype.com/language/japanese). I don’t know a thing about shodo but that’s OK. I use my tablet since I don’t do well with loose paper all over the place. There’s an app called Zen Brush that’s great for this (I prefer version 2 to version 3). Here’s some writing practice I just did right before I wrote this edit… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/c/2/3/c236e8a22195235533a7d6203e293b0f9fd94edb.jpeg) Edit: Aw, crap, I forgot the last stroke of が. We’ll just say I changed that one to katakana for emphasis. > [@deejaybee11](#): > > I have a font changing plugin that is supposed to make it so I’m exposed to many more realistic ways of writing them but instead just confuses me on these ones Is it Tsurukame? I’ve noticed that that one font switches 懇 with 墾 (which is one of the jōyō kanji that’s not in WaniKani). I wanted to nag someone about that but I have no idea who needs nagging! > [@AndyMender](#): > > For me it’s 報道. I always pick a word around the answer, but never the answer. I added the user synonym “journalism” yesterday to give myself some extra input. Let’s see. Those 報 kanji are a real annoyance. I’ve tried relying on the other kanji’s meanings but it doesn’t always work. > [@febLey](#): > > I still haven’t burned 々and 夕 from level 2… I missed my first chance to burn 夕, which was super frustrating because I’ve known that kanji for years. Sometimes I’ll go back and look through the [level 1–10 lists](https://www.wanikani.com/kanji?difficulty=pleasant), and I occasionally get lucky and find one that’s due soon! ---
**Author:** ![WeebPotato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/weebpotato/32/679291_2.png) [@WeebPotato](https://community.wanikani.com/u/WeebPotato)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/31 "2021-08-18T19:16:10Z")
> [@Brand\_S](#): > > Those 報 kanji are a real annoyance. I’ve tried relying on the other kanji’s meanings but it doesn’t always work. I mean, in the words I know which use 報 like 警報 or 予報 , it’s fine, because I get bombarded by various 警報s lately a lot (great weather here, really…), but what confuses me is the translation of “news report” for 報道 when the kanji suggest it’s not a _thing_ like a news report, but something else. I finally gave up and double-checked in a dictionary and yes, 報道 is actually “journalism” and more “reporting news” than “news report”. ぽていと vs ぽたーと 😛 > [@Brand\_S](#): > > Is it Tsurukame? I’ve noticed that that one has a font that switches 懇 with 墾 (which is one of the jōyō kanji that’s not in WaniKani). I wanted to nag someone about that but I have no idea who needs nagging! Probably the vast Internet for getting their unicodes wrong in different typesets 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Brand\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/brand_s/32/380508_2.png) [@Brand\_S](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Brand_S)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/32 "2021-08-18T19:25:36Z")
> [@AndyMender](#): > > I finally gave up and double-checked in a dictionary and yes, 報道 is actually “journalism” and more “reporting news” than “news report”. ぽていと vs ぽたーと 😛 Dang, that actually makes a lot more sense if I think of 報道 as “the way of the journaler!” ---
**Author:** ![febLey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/febley/32/270705_2.png) [@febLey](https://community.wanikani.com/u/febLey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/33 "2021-08-18T21:27:26Z")
I’m never sure if the reading is ゆ、ゆう or た and I keep mixing up the meaning with 多. ---
**Author:** ![deejaybee11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/deejaybee11/32/407907_2.png) [@deejaybee11](https://community.wanikani.com/u/deejaybee11)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/34 "2021-08-19T07:38:25Z")
Thanks, handwriting is a good idea. I’ve recently got a book to write in and plan to start but I’ve been bad at getting going! > Is it Tsurukame? I’ve noticed that that one font switches 懇 with 墾 (which is one of the jōyō kanji that’s not in WaniKani). I wanted to nag someone about that but I have no idea who needs nagging! It’s Jitai but it could have the same issues potentially! Something for me to keep in mind. I’ve started just hovering over the character with my mouse and it resorts to the default font which is helpful when I’m really unsure. ---
**Author:** ![ekg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ekg/32/680984_2.png) [@ekg](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ekg)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/35 "2021-08-19T07:42:33Z")
For me it’s defo [WaniKani / Vocabulary / 近日](https://www.wanikani.com/vocabulary/%E8%BF%91%E6%97%A5) My brain refuse to answer “soon” for the meaning, but I keep answering “recently” instead. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![rwesterhof](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/rwesterhof/32/296309_2.png) [@rwesterhof](https://community.wanikani.com/u/rwesterhof)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/36 "2021-08-19T08:04:10Z")
Not that I necessarily forget them, but my brain can’t seem to keep 沼 and 没 apart. They both leapfrog back and forth to master where one of them disappears for a month so I only see one at a time. I get it right a few times so it goes into master also, and then the other one comes back and I fail that because I’m automatically typing the answer I’ve given several times in a row. Now this one comes back several times until it gets into master, and then the first comes back and I automatically get that one wrong. Rinse and repeat. ---
**Author:** ![WeebPotato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/weebpotato/32/679291_2.png) [@WeebPotato](https://community.wanikani.com/u/WeebPotato)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/37 "2021-08-19T08:19:57Z")
> [@febLey](#): > > I’m never sure if the reading is ゆ、ゆう or た and I keep mixing up the meaning with 多. Are you ready for タ行? 😂😂😂 That’s what I saw on Aozora Bunko once. ---
**Author:** ![Stay\_coolXD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/stay_coolxd/32/658252_2.png) [@Stay\_coolXD](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Stay_coolXD)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/38 "2021-08-19T18:49:40Z")
Just thought of good mnemnic for this Eりろん musk As for meaning “tesla cars in theory should help the enviroment” i know it is bad have mercy pls… ---
**Author:** ![NawmDPloom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/nawmdploom/32/397768_2.png) [@NawmDPloom](https://community.wanikani.com/u/NawmDPloom)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/39 "2021-08-19T19:18:51Z")
When I got 用いる [not that long ago, lol], I was actually doing a chemistry assignment where I made milk mochi out of edible packing peanuts. I always think that I was utilizing the mochi to get a good grade lul. ---
**Author:** ![Tsumabuki\_Raito](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tsumabuki_raito/32/439575_2.png) [@Tsumabuki\_Raito](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Tsumabuki_Raito)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083/40 "2021-08-19T20:15:01Z")
> [@NawmDPloom](#): > > I made milk mochi out of edible packing peanuts. I didn’t know there were such things as edible packing peanuts(technically, I suppose you could use regular peanuts to pack, but…). I am not much of a science person, so how does one make mochi out of them? You know, for science(and vocab retention)! [Previous page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/what-is-your-longest-leech/53083.md?page=3)