These are the content changes we made in February 2025.
Radicals
- Enter - Updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Heaven - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- King - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “throne” to the warning list.
- Leaf - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Legs - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Middle - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Moon - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Narwhal - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Private - Added artwork.
- Rice Paddy - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Small - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Stand - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Stop - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Street - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Sword - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “samurai” to the warning list.
- Thousand - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Treasure - Added artwork.
- Water - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- White - Added artwork.
- Writing - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Arrow - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Canopy - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Direction - Added artwork.
- Door - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Dry - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Father - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Fingers - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Fur - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “tail” to the warning list.
- Hat - Added artwork.
- Heart - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Ice - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Life - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Now - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “clock” to the warning list.
- Old - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Poop - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Roof - Added artwork.
- Spoon - Added artwork.
- Stone - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Stool - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Task - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Towel - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Triceratops - Added artwork.
- Window - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Winter - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “ski” and “skier” to the warning list.
- Toe - Updated the meaning explanation.
- Book - Added artwork.
Kanji
- 人 - Updated the meaning mnemonic.
- 入 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 千 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 中 - Updated the meaning mnemonic and the reading mnemonic.
- 牛 - Updated the meaning mnemonic hint.
- 肉 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 噂 - Added “rumour” to the allow list.
- 解 - Moved “solve” to the primary meaning, moved “untie” to the alternative meaning, added “unravel” to the allow list, added “explanation,” “understanding,” “answer,” and “explain” to the warning list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 乳 - Added 孔 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 粋 - Added 枠 and 砕 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 運 - Added 達 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 連 - Added 達 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 緒 - Moved “together” from primary meaning to the warning list, added “cord” as the new primary meaning, added “connection” and “mood” as alternative meanings, added “thread,” “strap,” “string,” “continuity,” and “feeling” to the allow list, added “emotion” and “beginning” to the warning list, updated meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated reading mnemonic and hint.
- 腸 - Added the kun’yomi reading わた as an alternative reading, and added “bowels” and “guts” to the allow list.
- 堪 - Moved the kun’yomi reading こた to the warning list.
Vocabulary
- ない - Added a context sentence, updated a common word combination translation, and replaced a common word combination.
- 毎年 - Added “last year” to the block list.
- お菓子 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 噂 - Added “rumour” to the allow list.
- 足りる - Added “to do,” “to serve,” “to be worth,” “to be worthy,” and “to deserve” to the warning list, added “not sufficient” and “not suffice” to the block list.
- 直る - Moved “to fix” to the allow list.
- ～間 - Added あいだ to the warning list.
- 初級 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 中級 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 上級 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 脳みそ - Added “brainwash” and “brainwashing” to the block list.
- 最後尾 - Added さいごび to the warning list, added “end of a queue” as an alternative meaning, added “tail end” to the allow list, updated meaning explanation, and updated reading explanation.
- 震える - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 済ます - Updated two context sentence translations.
- 収まる - Added “to obtain” to the block list.
- 過去形 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 降ろす - Added two context sentence translations.
- 事故 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 垂れる - Added “to hang down” as an alternative meaning, added “to hang,” “to hang vertically,” and “to droop” to the allow list, moved “to leak” to the warning list, added “to drop,” “to trickle,” “to drool,” “to bow,” and “to give” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 必需品 - Added “necessity goods,” “essential goods,” “necessity items,” and “essential items” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 妊婦 - Added “pregnant women” and “expectant mother” to the allow list, added “pregnant” and “maternity” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 描く - Moved “to sketch” to the allow list, added “to paint,” “to illustrate,” and “to depict” as alternative meanings, added “to envision” to the allow list, added “to image,” “to imagine,” and “to describe” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 沈める - Added “to submerge something” as an alternative meaning, added “to submerge” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 泊まり - Moved “stopover” to the allow list, added “staying over,” “staying overnight,” and “lodging” to the allow list.
- 扇 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 仰々しい - Added “excessively grand” as an alternative meaning, added “overly formal,” “too showy,” “over the top,” “unnecessarily grand,” “too dramatic,” “histrionic,” “ceremonious,” and “pretentious” to the allow list, added “showy,” “dramatic,” and “extravagant” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 貫き通す - Updated the primary meaning to “to stick to”, moved “to follow” to the warning list, added “to carry through” as the alternative meaning, moved “to stick with” and “to go through” to the allow list, added “to follow through,” “to cling to,” “to pierce,” “to pierce through,” “to persevere,” “to persist with,” “to keep faith,” and “to maintain” to the allow list, added “to stick,” “to cling,” and “to keep” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 聞く - Added “to read” to the block list.
- 招待する - Updated one context sentence.
- 悩み - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 力 - Added りょく and りき to the warning list.
- 早い - Updated the reading explanation.
- 谷 - Added こく, せ, and や to the warning list.
- 返事 - Added “transfer” to the block list.
- 運転する - Updated the reading explanation.
- 横 - Added おう to the warning list.
- 合格する - Added “to fail an exam” to the block list.
- 雰囲気 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 変える - Updated the reading explanation.
- 許す - Added “to forbid” to the block list.
- 本質 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 端 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 抜ける - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 巻きずし - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 〜症 - Removed one context sentence.
- 見抜く - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 与える - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 診断 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 巣立ち - Updated the reading explanation.
- 祖父 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 遅刻 - Added three new context sentence translations.
- 一緒 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 内緒 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 由緒 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 御飯 - Added “rice” to the warning list.
- 内緒話 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 犠打 - Added “sac fly” and “sac blunt” to the allow list.
- 渋谷 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 舗 - Moved ぽ the reading to the warning list.
- 疾患 - Added new common word combinations.
- 腸 - Moved わた and はらわた readings to the warning list, moved “guts” from primary meaning to an alternative meaning, moved “intestines” from alternative meaning to primary meaning.