These are the content changes we made in January 2025.
Radicals
- Barb - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Big - Added artwork.
- Construction - Added artwork.
- Cross - Added artwork.
- Drop - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Enter - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Fins - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Ground - Added artwork.
- Gun - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Lid - Added artwork.
- Mountain - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Mouth - Added artwork.
- Nine - Added artwork.
- Person - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Power - Added artwork.
- Prison - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- River - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Seven - Added artwork.
- Slide - Added artwork.
- Stick - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Sun - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Toe - Added artwork, updated mnemonic, and added “to” to the allow list.
- Tree - Added artwork.
- Two - Added artwork.
- Woman - Added artwork and updated mnemonic.
- Bow - Added artwork.
- Child - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Cow - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “bull,” “ox,” and “steer” to the warning list.
- Dirt - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Dog - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Evening - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Eye - Added artwork.
- Fire - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Five - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Flag - Added artwork.
- Hair - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
- Hand - Added artwork, updated the meaning mnemonic, and added “palm” to the warning list.
- Head - Added artwork and updated the meaning mnemonic.
Kanji
- 況 - Updated the reading mnemonic.
- 皮 - Added “hide,” “pelt,” and “peel” to the allow list, added “wide” to the block list.
- 購 - Updated the primary meaning to “purchase”, moved “subscription” and “subscribe” to the warning list, added “purchasing,” “buying,” and “buy” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 令 - Added 冷 to the visually similar list.
Vocabulary
- 人 - Added にん and じん to the warning list.
- 王子 - Removed “price” from the block list.
- 撃つ - Added “transitive verb” as a part of speech.
- 教諭 - Added “teaching” to the block list.
- 留守番電話 - Added “voicemail” as an alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation.
- 並べる - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 不足 - Added “to be sufficient” to the block list.
- 同じ - Added “the same” to the allow list.
- 瞬き - Removed “wink” from the allow list and added it as an alternative meaning.
- 入る - Added いる to the warning list.
- 少ない - Added “too much” to the block list.
- 一本気 - Added “single-minded” and “one-track-minded” to the allow list.
- 休止 - Moved “suspension” to the alternative meaning.
- 皮 - Added “peel” as an alternative meaning, added “pelt” to the allow list, and updated meaning explanation.
- 受かる - Updated meaning explanation.
- 説明 - Added “description” as an alternative meaning, added “explain,” “explaining,” “describe,” and “describing” to the allow list, added “commentary,” “caption,” “legend,” “direction,” “instruction,” “explanatory,” “account,” “account for,” “accounting for,” “illustration,” “illustrate,” “illustrating,” “tell,” and “telling” to the warning list, and updated meaning explanation.
- 解説 - Added “explain,” “explaining,” “commenting on,” “comment on,” and “commenting about” to the allow list, added “comment,” “commenting,” “interpretation,” “interpret,” “interpreting,” “analysis,” “analyse,” “analyze,” “analysing,” and “analyzing” to the warning list, and updated meaning explanation.
- 崎 - Moved みさき to the warning list.
- 抜く - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 逮捕 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 模様 - Updated two context sentence translations.
- 構成 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 往復 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 購読 - Added “subscribing” as an alternative meaning, added “subscribing to,” “subscribe,” and “subscribe to” to the allow list, added “take,” “taking,” “take in,” “taking in,” “read,” and “reading” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 購入 - Added “purchasing” as an alternative meaning, added “buying” and “buy” to the allow list, and updated meaning explanation.
- 購買 - Added “school shop” and “campus store” as alternative meanings, added “purchase,” “buying,” “buy,” “school store,” and “campus shop” to the allow list, and updated meaning explanation.
- 微か - Updated reading explanation.
- 購読する - Updated meaning explanation.
- 久しい - Updated the context sentences.
- 紛糾 - Added “diffusion” to the block list.
- 揺らぐ - Added “to waver” and “to falter” to the allow list, and updated one context sentence translation.
- 親分 - Moved “kingpin,” “chief,” and “head” to the allow list, added “leader” as the alternative meaning, added “crime boss,” “yakuza boss,” “gang boss,” “crime leader,” “yakuza leader,” “gang leader,” “parent figure,” and “guiding figure” to the allow list, added “manager” to the warning list, and updated meaning explanation.
- 現す - Added “to show something” and “to reveal something” to the allow list.
- 再度 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 降伏 - Updated one context sentence translation.