Is there some difference in the stroke order or in the etymology? Because in the various kanji it looks just like Triceratops to me.
Also,
Grass is closer together
Not in this image!
As you can see in the screenshots, Triceratops is symmetrical an its middle always connect with the radicals underneath it.
Grass on the other hand is asymmetrical, its left and middle strokes are leaning to the left while its right stroke is leaning to the right.
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Grass is ツ getting spread out. (Therefore I added tsu as a synonym.)
Triceratops is the top of 肖, and is written middle first.
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It’s also a variant of 小.
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While it seems so, 尚 and 当 are derived from a different etymology, while the stroke order still follows 肖.
Grass comes from various simplifications. Particularly, the top of 学 has multiple origins (e.g. 栄). And 単 intrigued me in Chinese a while ago. 桜 and 誉 have different origins.
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It does seem a little odd that WK is happy to merge 夂 and 攵 into one component, and similarly use one component name for the left side of both 礼 and 初, but they keep these two fairly similar looking components distinct.
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oof, these ones really irked me with the extra strokes.
I also had to deal with 得 using 寺 as its radical. when it is clearly not. The silver lining? you start looking for info outside of wanikani and broaden your knowledge. It’s always better not to rely on just one resource when you learn a language.
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