These are the content changes we made in May 2022.
Radicals
- 爰 - Added “American football” to the allow list.
- 莫 - Added “endless” to the allow list.
- 代 - Added “replace”, “period”, and “age” to the allow list.
Kanji
- 痛 - Added “hurt” to the allow list.
- 魅 - Added “allure” to the allow list.
- 猛 - Added たけ as kun’yomi reading.
- 莫 - Made “endless” primary meaning, moved “greenhouse” to allow list, added “huge” and “enormous” to allow list, and updated meaning and reading explanations.
- 掃 - Added “sweeping”, “clean”, and “cleaning” to allow list.
- 億 - Added “100 million” to the allow list.
- 傷 - Added “injury” to the allow list.
- 職 - Added “job”, “work” and “occupation” to the allow list.
- 逮 - Added “catch” and “arrest” to the allow list.
- 絞 - Added “wring” to the allow list.
- 朱 - Changed the primary meaning from “vermillion” to “vermilion”, moving “vermillion” to the allow list.
- 遺 - Added ゆい as on’yomi.
- 磁 - Added し as on’yomi.
Vocabulary
- 仕返し - added “retribution” to allow list.
- 伝える - added “to convey” as an alternative meaning and moved “to pass along” to the allow list.
- 作戦 - added “operation” as an alternative meaning and updated meaning explanation.
- 医者 - added “medical doctor” and “medical physician” to allow list.
- 生む - added “to birth” to the allow list.
- 産む - added “to birth” to the allow list.
- 震度 - moved “earthquake magnitude” to allow list.
- 共通点 - added “commonality” as an alternative meaning.
- 労働 - added “work” as an alternative meaning.
- 勝ち - added “success” to allow list.
- 売り上げ - added “proceeds” to allow list.
- 保つ - added “to hold something” to block list.
- 最初 - added “the best” to block list.
- 年内 - added “by year’s end” to allow list.
- 九つ - Added “six things” to the blocklist.
- 心持ち - Added “frame of mind” to the allow list.
- 最低 - Added “the minimum” as an alternative meaning, added “minimum” to the allow list, moved “lowest” and “worst” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 知る - Added “to learn” and “to find out” as alternative meanings, updated meaning explanation, edited a collocation translation, and added a new context sentence.
- 意外 - Added “surprising” as an alternative meaning and updated meaning explanation.
- 挟む - Added “to get between” to the block list.
- 向ける - Added “to head towards” to the block list.
- 酷い - Moved “terrible” and “violent” to the allow list, added むごい to the reading warning list, and added two context sentences.
- 指す - Added “to indicate” and “to refer to” as alternative meanings.
- 新た - Added “anew” to the allow list.
- 本物 - Added “authentic” to the allow list.
- 優しい - Added “tender” to the allow list.
- 注意 - Added “warning” as an alternative meaning and updated meaning explanation.
- 対向する - Added “to be oncoming” and “to come towards” as alternative meanings and added two context sentences.
- 検索 - Added “search”, “searching for”, “looking up”, “retrieval”, “reference” and “access” to the allow list and added two context sentences.
- 改造 - Added “reshuffle” as alternative meaning, added “remodel”, “renew” and “modded” to the allow list, and added one context sentence.
- 欧米 - Moved “America and Europe” and “USA and Europe” to the allow list, added “Europe and the US”, “the US and Europe”, “Europe and the United States” and “the United States and Europe” to the allow list, updated meaning explanation, and added two context sentences.
- 撮る - Added “to take a video” as alternative meaning, moved “to take a photograph”, “to photograph”, “to film” and “to take video” to allow list, added “to take” to allow list, and added two context sentences.
- 求める - Added “to seek” to the allow list.
- 苦手 - Added “not good at” to the allow list.
- 薦める - Updated meaning explanation and added two new context sentences.
- 勧める - Updated meaning explanation to include explanation on difference in nuance from 薦める, updated reading explanation, added “to offer” as an alternative meaning, and added “to urge” and “to encourage” to the allow list, and replaced a context sentence.
- 試験 - Added “experience” to block list.
- 見送る - Added “to put off” and “to pass on” as alternative meanings, added “to pass over”, “to pass up”, and “to forgo” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and replaced a context sentence.
- 採用 - Added “employment” as an alternative meaning and added two new context sentences.
- 便所 - Moved “lavatory” to allow list, added “bog” to allow list, and added to meaning explanation.
- 別に - Moved “not especially” and “not particularly” to the allow list, added “in addition to” as an alternative meaning, added “extra” to the allow list, and updated the meaning and reading explanations.
- 莫大 - Updated meaning explanation.
- 壊れる - Added “to break down” and “to break” to the allow list, and added two context sentences.
- 売る - Added “to buy something” to the block list.
- 普段 - Added “noun” and “adverb” to word types, added “usually” as an alternative meaning, moved “ordinary”, “habitual” and “everyday” to the allow list, added “regularly”, “normally” and “ordinarily” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and added two context sentences.
- 文字 - Added “text” as an alternative meaning and moved “letters” and “characters” to the allow list.
- 二倍 - Added “twofold” as an alternative meaning.
- 勝手 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 商人 - Added “tradesperson” as an alternative meaning and added あきんど and あきゅうど readings to the warning list.
- 太陽 - Added “solar” to the allow list.
- 根本 - Added “fundamentals” and “basics” to the allow list.
- 流行 - Added “prevalence” as an alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation, replaced a context sentence, and added “spread” and “epidemic” to the allow list.
- 立てる - Added “to make something” and “to set something up” as alternative meanings, updated meaning explanation, moved “to stand up”, “to erect” and “to erect something” to the allow list, and added “to devise”, “to devise something”, “to support”, “to support someone”, “to treat someone with respect”, “to construct”, “to construct something”, “to establish”, “to establish something”, and “to emit” to the allow list.
- 深い - Added “profound” to the allow list.
- 六つ - Added “two things” to the block list.
- 伝える - Added “to communicate” and “to communicate something” to the allow list.
- 第一 - Added “primary”, “foremost”, and “the foremost” to the allow list.
- 話し方 - Added “manner of speech”, “how to speak”, and “how to talk” to the allow list.
- 仲良く - Added “get along with”, “be on good terms”, and “be good friends” to the allow list.
- 貧乏人 - Added “poor people” to the allow list.
- 称える - Added となえる to the reading warning list and “to name”, “to call”, and “to assume the name of” to the meaning warning list.
- 朱 - Changed the primary meaning from “vermillion” to “vermilion”, moving “vermillion” to the allow list.
- 運動会 - added “sports meet,” “sports meeting,” “athletic meet,” and “athletic meeting” to the allow list.
- 講義 - added “lecturer” to the block list.