These are the content changes we made in February 2024.
Kanji
- 上 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 場 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 情 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 丈 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 冗 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 常 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 得 - Added “inquire” to the block list.
- 条 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 状 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 蒸 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 縄 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 譲 - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.
- 井 - Changed the primary reading from しょう to い, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 嬢 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 畳 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 浄 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 剰 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 壌 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 醸 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 錠 - Updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.
- 女 - Updated the reading hint.
- 母 - Changed the radical composition from “sun” and “drop” to “window,” and updated the meaning, reading, and corresponding hint explanations.
- 助 - Updated the reading hint.
- 減 - Added 滅 to the visually similar list.
- 挟 - Updated the meaning hint.
- 夕 - Added た to the warning list.
- 威 - Moved “majesty” to the allow list, added “dignity” as a primary meaning, added “might” as an alternative meaning, added “intimidate”, “threaten”, “majestic”, “majestical”, “power”, “force”, and “dignified” to the allow list, added “authority” to the warning list, and updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.
- 力 - Added か to the warning list.
- 給 - Added “wage” to the allow list.
- 濃 - Added “dense” as the primary meaning, made “thick” an alternative meaning, added “concentrated”, “condensed”, “strong”, “dark”, “deep”, and “substantial” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 吉 - Added “congratulations” to the warning list.
- 湧 - Made “well up” the primary meaning, moved “well” to the allow list, added “gush”, “gush out”, “arise”, “gush forth”, “surge”, “spring up”, “appear”, and “spring out” to the allow list, moved “boil” to the warning list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
Vocabulary
- 上手 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 威厳 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 下がる - Added “to go down” as the alternative meaning, moved “to fall” and “to drop” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 上がる - Added “to get higher” as the alternative meaning, moved “to be raised” to the allow list, moved “to stop” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 乗馬 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 乗客 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 鼻歌 - Added “mumbling” to the block list.
- 得る - Added “to inquire” to the block list.
- 指圧 - Updated the meaning explanation, added “acupressure” to the allow list, and added “massage” and “Japanese massage” to the warning list.
- 誕生 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 岡山城 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 株式市場 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 触れる - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 貸し切り - Added “private reservation” as the primary meaning, moved “reservation” and “reserved” to the allow list, added “renting,” “renting out,” “chartered,” “chartering,” and “exclusive reservation” to the allow list, added “lock-in” and “private” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 招く - Added “to cause” as an alternative meaning, moved “to summon” to the allow list, added “to invite someone” to the allow list, added “to have,” “to ask,” “to call in,” “to employ,” and “to engage” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 抜き出す - Moved “to extract” to the primary meaning, added “to pull something out” as the alternative meaning, moved “to select” and “to start to pull out” to the allow list, added “to choose, “to take out,” “to single out,” “to extract something,” and “to pull out something” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 蒸れる - Added “to get hot and sticky” as the primary meaning, added “to be steamed” as the alternative meaning, added “to be sticky and sweaty,” “to be sweaty and sticky,” “to be sweaty,” “to be sticky,” “to get steamed,” “to get sticky and sweaty,” “to get sweaty and sticky,” “to get sweaty,” “to get sticky,” “to be hot and sticky,” “to be well steamed,” and “to get well steamed” to the allow list, moved “to be humid” and “to be stuffy” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 蒸し暑い - Moved “hot and humid” to the primary meaning, moved “humid” to the alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 口紅 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 払い - Added “suffix” to the word type.
- 紅 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 肌色 - Moved “skin color” to the primary meaning, added “skin tone” as the alternative meaning, moved “flesh colored” and “skin colored” to the allow list, moved “pale orange” to the warning list, added “pale orange color,” “pale orange colour,” “color pale orange,” “colour pale orange,” “light orange,” “light orange color,” “light orange colour,” “color light orange,” “colour light orange,” “peach,” “peach skin tone,” “pale peach,” “light peach,” “pale peach color,” “pale peach colour,” “color pale peach,” “colour pale peach,” “light peach color,” “light peach colour,” “color light peach,” and “colour light peach” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, removed one context sentence, and added three context sentences.
- 井戸 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 天井 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 勘定 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 搭乗 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 軒並 - Changed the vocab from “軒並” to “軒並み,” updated the reading explanation, and added “のきなみみ” to the reading warning list.
- 下手 - Added “skilled” to the block list.
- 同じ - Added “the same” to the allow list.
- 最後 - Added “the most” and “most” to the block list.
- 気持ちいい - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 高級 - Added “high-class” as the primary meaning, moved “high class” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 断つ - Added “to get off” to the block list.
- 屈む - Moved “to bow” to the warning list, and updated the meaning and reading explanations.
- 極める - Added “to reach the peak of something” as a primary meaning, added “to perfect” and “to reach the extreme” as alternative meanings, moved “to carry to extremes” and “to master” to the allow list, added “to perfect something”, “to reach the highest”, “to reach the extreme level”, “to reach an extreme level”, “to reach the highest point”, “to reach the highest level”, “to reach the maximum level”, “to reach the extreme of something”, “to go to extremes”, and “to take something to extremes” to the allow list, added “to emphasize”, “to intensify”, and “extremely” to the warning list, updated the meaning and reading explanations, added three collocations, and added a new context sentence.
- お構いなく - Updated the translation of one example sentence.
- 蒸れる - Updated the reading explanation.
- 散らかす - Updated the translation of one context sentence.
- 汚す - Added “to be dirty” to the block list.
- 頼る - Added “transitive verb” to the word type and updated t context sentence.
- 寸 - Moved “three centimeters” and “three point oh three centimeters” to the allow list, added “3.03 cm,” “3.03 centimeters,” “3 cm,” “3 centimeters,” “three point zero three centimetres,” “three centimetres,” “three point oh three centimetres,” “3.03 centimetres,” and “3 centimetres” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 人々 - Added “everyone” to the warning list, and moved “everybody” to the warning list.
- 生活 - Added “lively” to the block list.
- 二時半 - Added “half past 2” to the allow list.
- 転がる - Updated the reading explanation.
- 連れる - Updated one context sentence, and moved “to be accompanied by” to the allow list.
- 断つ - Added “to abstain from” to the allow list.
- 収める - Moved “to finish” and “to finish something” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 再建 - Added two new context sentences.
- 再来月 - Updated a context sentence translation and added two new context sentences.
- 再来年 - Updated a context sentence translation and added two new context sentences.
- 再来週 - Replaced a context sentence and added two new context sentences.
- 再び - Replaced a context sentence and added two new context sentences.
- お構いなく - Added “don’t mind me” as the primary meaning, added “without regard for” to the alternative meaning, moved “don’t worry” and “don’t worry about it” to the allow list, added “don’t bother,” “don’t bother yourself,” “don’t worry about us,” “don’t fuss over me,” “don’t mind us,” “don’t worry about me,” “without any regard for,” “without any regard,” “regardless of,” “regardless of something,” “in spite of,” “without minding,” “without minding something,” “without any regard for something,” “without regard for something,” and “without regard” to the allow list, added “without hesitation” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, updated the translation of one example sentence, and added two example sentences.
- 勧める - Added “to recommend something” to the allow list.
- 惑う - Added “to be at a loss” as the primary meaning and “to be bewildered” an alternative meaning, moved “to be led astray,” “to be perplexed,” and “to be puzzled” to the allow list, moved “to be misguided” to the warning list, added “to be confused,” “to be baffled,” “to be mystified,” and “to be in a quandary” to the allow list, updated the meaning and reading explanations, replaced a context sentence and added two new ones, and added common word combinations.
- 威張る - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 球威 - Moved “pitcher’s stuff” to the allow list, added “stuff”, “force of a ball”, “power of a ball”, “force of a baseball”, and “power of a baseball” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 権威 - Added “power” and “influence” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 焦る - Added “to be anxious” as the alternative meaning, added “to fret” to the allow list, and moved “to be fret” to the warning list.
- 踊り場 - Updated the context sentences and added common word combinations.
- 伏せる - Updated the translation of one context sentence.
- 流浪 - Updated the meaning and reading explanations.
- 円い - Updated the reading explanation.
- 西洋 - Updated a context sentence translation.
- 緑色 - Removed “なadjective” from the word type, and updated one context sentence.
- 学期 - Added “school semester” and “semester of school” to the allow list.
- 合格する - Added “to take a test” and “to take an exam” to the block list.
- 昨今 - Added “lately” to the allow list.
- 全治 - Added “health” to the block list.
- 弓 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 比例 - Added “be proportional,” “being proportional,” “be proportional to,” and “being proportional to” to the warning list.
- 主観 - Added “objective view,” “objective opinion,” and “objective” to the block list.
- 断つ - Updated the meaning explanation, removed one context sentence, updated one context sentence, and added two context sentences.
- 捜す - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 減給 - Updated a context sentence translation.
- 給料 - Made “salary” the primary reading, added “wages” as an alternative meaning,
- 給与 - Made “salary” the primary reading, added “compensation” as an alternative meaning, moved “gross pay” to the allow list, added “net pay,” “wage,” and “earnings” to the allow list, added “allowance,” “base wages,” and “base salary,” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated a context sentence translation.
- 与える - Updated a context sentence translation.
- 濃い - Added “dense” as the primary meaning, made “thick” an alternative meaning, added “deep” and “strong” as alternative meanings, added “condensed”, “concentrated”, “dark”, “rich”, and “saturated” to the allow list, updated the meaning and reading explanations, and added common word combinations.
- 濃度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 誘惑する - Added two context sentences.
- 絶つ - Added “to break off contact” as the primary meaning, moved “to sever” to the alternative meaning, added “to end” as the alternative meaning, moved “to cut off” and “to abstain from” to the allow list, added “to break off” to the allow list, added “to root out” and “ to get rid of” to the warning list, removed one context sentence, and added four context sentences.
- 監督 - Added “coach” to the allow list.
- 探す - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 離す - Added “to separate something” to the allow list.
- 園 - Moved “park” to the allow list, added “kindergarten,” “daycare,” “nursery,” and “orchard” to the allow list, added “paradise,” “sanctuary,” and “institution” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, updated the primary reading to その and the alternative reading to えん, updated the reading explanation, and updated the common word combinations.
- 叔父 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 補充 - Added “replenish” to the allow list.
- 携わる - Added “to get involved” to the allow list.
- 落雷 - Added “lightning bolt” to the allow list.
- 全裸 - Added “fully naked” to the allow list.
- 親父 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 極楽 - Added “heavenly” to the allow list and updated the meaning and reading explanations.
- 地殻 - Updated a context sentence translation.
- 湧く - Added “to gush out” and “to arise” as alternative meanings, moved “to gush forth”, “to spring out”, and “to surge” to the allow list, added “to well”, “to spring up”, “to appear”, and “to gush” to the allow list, added “to boil” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 湧水 - Moved “spring” to the allow list and updated the meaning explanation.
- 止める - Updated a context sentence.
- 父 - Updated a context sentence.
- 対比 - Added common word combinations, updated a context sentence translation, and replaced a context sentence.
- 比べる - Added common word combinations, replaced three context sentences, and added a context sentence.
- 比例 - Added common word combinations and replaced three context sentences.
- 得る - Added “to acquire something” to the allow list.
- 比較する - Added common word combinations, updated a context sentence translation, and added two context sentences.
- 憧れる - Added common word combinations, updated a context sentence translation and added two new context sentences.
- 憧れ - Added “admiration” as an alternative meaning, moved “aspiration” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, added common word combinations, updated a context sentence translation and added two new context sentences.
- 懲りる - Added “to learn from experience” to the allow list.
- 旨い - Added “good at” and “skilled” to the allow list.
- 南蛮 - Added “northern barbarians” to the block list.