Content Updates for May 2023

These are the content changes we made in May 2023.

Radicals

• 原 - Updated the meaning mnemonic.
• 儿 - Added “leg” to the allow list.

Kanji

• 後 - Added “leader” to the block list.
• 億 - Added “ten million” to the block list.
• 完 - Added “completion” to the allow list.
• 率 - Added “ratio” to the allow list.
• 秀 - Added “surpass” to the allow list.
• 俳 - Added “actor” to the allow list.
• 展 - Added “unfold” to the allow list.
• 武 - Added “warrior” to the allow list.
• 抜 - Added “slip out” to the allow list.
• 締 - Added “tie” to the allow list.
• 睡 - Added “sleep” to the allow list.
• 康 - Added “sane” to the allow list.
• 攻 - Added “attack” to the allow list.
• 積 - Added “amass” to the allow list.
• 寄 - Added “draw near” to the allow list.
• 診 - Added “examine” to the allow list.
• 猟 - Removed れふ from the on’yomi.
• 覚 - Added “aware” and “awareness” to the allow list.
• 興 - Added “entertain” to the allow list.
• 敬 - Added “honor” to the allow list.
• 巧 - Changed the radical “beggar” to “ground” and “prison,” and updated the meaning mnemonic, meaning hint, reading mnemonic, and reading hint.
• 鰐 - Changed the radicals from “ground” and “beggar” to “two” and “prison,” and updated the meaning mnemonic and meaning hint.
• 紺 - Added “navy blue” as the primary meaning, moved “deep blue” and “navy” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation.
• 里 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
• 晩 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
• 板 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
• 臓 - Added “entrails” to the allow list.
• 承 - Added “acquiescence” and “acquiesce” to the allow list.
• 盤 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
• 蛮 - Updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
• 頭 - Added 願 to the visually similar kanji list.
• 坪 - Added “tsubo” as an alternative meaning.
• 人 - Added “people,” “number of people,” “counter for people,” “person counter,” “people counter,” and “amount of people” to the allow list.
• 台 - Added “big machine counter,” “machine counter,” “number of machines,” “counter for machines,” “big machine,” “big device,” “device,” “counter for big machines,” “number of big machines,” “counter for vehicles,” “number of vehicles,” “vehicle counter,” and “stand” to the allow list.
• 回 - Added “number of times,” “time,” “counter for times,” and “times counter” to the allow list.
• 転 - Added “roll” to the allow list.
• 胸 - Added “breasts” to the allow list.
• 防 - Added “pretend” to the block list.
• 株 - Added “stock” to the allow list.

Vocabulary

• 当たる - Updated the reading explanation.
• 作家 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 作者 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 所 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 交わる - Added “to intercept” to the block list.
• 部屋 - Updated the reading explanation.
• 角度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 当て字 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 速度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 整理 - Updated three collocation translations.
• 表情 - Added “expression” to the allow list.
• 全治 - Moved “healed,” “fully recover”, “fully recovered”, “healed completely”, “heal completely”, “completely cured”, “fully cured”, and “fully healed” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and moved ぜんじ to the reading warning list.
• 女神 - Moved じょしん to the reading warning list.
• 折角 - Added “at great pains” to the allow list.
• 出席 - Added “presence” to the allow list.
• 紀元前 - Added “before the modern era” and “before modern era” to the block list.
• 自愛 - Moved “selfishness” from the allowlist to the warning list and added “narcissism” to the warning list.
• お持ち帰り - Added “carryout” and “carry out” to the allow list.
• 値 - Moved あたい to the primary reading, moved ね to the alternative reading, updated the meaning explanation, updated the reading explanation, and fixed an error with a context sentence (the Japanese sentence and its translation were mistakenly inputted in the wrong order).
• 副題 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 現れる - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 沢 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 現す - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 触る - Added “to irritate” to the meaning warning list.
• 置き場 - Moved “location to put something,” “place to put down,” and “location to put down” to the allow list, and added “place to put” to the allow list.
• 対策 - Added “measure” to the allow list.
• 発展する - Added “to unfold” to the warning list.
• 鮮魚 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 優れる - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 金属 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 含意 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 効力 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 天候 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 絞める - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 効く - Added “to work effectively” as the alternative meaning and updated the meaning explanation.
• 絞殺 - Added “murder by strangling” as the primary meaning, added “strangling to death” as the alternative meaning, moved “death by strangling,” “strangled to death” and “strangling” to the allow list, added “kill by strangling” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 属する - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 所属 - Moved “affiliation” to the primary meaning, moved “attached to” and added “belonging to” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 独立 - Added “self-reliance” to the allow list.
• 誘惑 - Moved “seduction” to the primary meaning, moved “temptation” to the alternative meaning, added “lure”, “enticement”, “entice”, “seduce”, and “tempt” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 濃度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 精度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 修士 - Added “master’s” to the allow list.
• 見極める - Added “to identify” and “to make sure of something” to the allow list.
• 誘惑する - Moved “to seduce” to the primary meaning, moved “to tempt” to the alternative meaning, added “to lure” and “to entice” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 越える - Updated the reading explanation.
• 幾度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 枝 - Updated the reading explanation.
• 躍動 - Moved “throb” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 傾ける - Added “to lean something” as the primary meaning, added “to tilt something” as the alternative meaning, moved “to lean” and “to tilt” to the alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 泥沼 - Added “quagmire” as the primary meaning, moved “bog” to the alternative meaning, added “morass” to the alternative meaning, moved “marsh” to the allow list, added “mire” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 棚 - Added “cabinet” as the alternative meaning.
• 〜狩り - Moved かり to the reading warning list.
• 輝度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 緯度 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 少ない - Added “not small” to block list.
• 開放する - Added “to open up something” to the allow list.
• 追いかける - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 輪 - Updated one context sentence.
• 非常 - Added “extreme” and “unusual” as alternative meanings, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 勢い - Added “momentum” as an alternative meaning, moved “vigor” to the allow list, added “power” to the allow list, and updated the meaning and reading explanations.
• 受領書 - Updated a context sentence.
• 価 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 張る - Updated the reading explanation.
• 戸棚 - Added “cabinet” as the primary meaning, moved “cupboard” to the alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation, added collocations, and added three context sentences.
• 棚 - Added collocations and added three context sentences.
• 本棚 - Added collocations and added three context sentences.
• 特質 - Added “attribute”, “quality”, and “feature” to the allow list.
• 遠視 - Added “near sightedness” and “nearsightedness” to block list.
• 期限 - Made “deadline” the primary meaning and updated the meaning explanation.
• 前景 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 限定 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 限界 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 限度 - Added “bounds” as the alternative meaning and updated the meaning explanation.
• 絶える - Added “to cease” to the allow list.
• 延びる - Added “to extend” and “to stretch” to the allow list.
• 貧乏人 - Added “the poor” to the allow list.
• 雑費 - Added “misc expenses” and “sundry expenses” to the allow list.
• 肉欲 - Added “lust” to the allow list.
• 沼 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 女権 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 紺 - Added “dark blue” as the alternative meaning, and moved “deep blue” and “navy” to the allow list.
• 濃紺 - Added “dark navy blue” as the primary meaning, moved “dark blue” and added “dark navy” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation.
• 王子 - Added “price” to the block list.
• 不足 - Added “insufficiency” as the alternative meaning, moved “physical shortage,” “insufficient,” “not sufficient,” “not enough,” and added “being short,” “being insufficient,” “being not enough,” “being not sufficient” to the allow list.
• 代用 - Added “alternative,” “alternate,” and “alternating” to the allow list.
• 作文 - Added “journal” and “short composition” to the allow list.
• 工作 - Added “handiwork” to the allow list.
• 里 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 直行 - Added “going straight”, “going direct”, “going without stopping”, “go straight”, “go direct” and “go without stopping” to the allow list, and added “go indirect” and “going indirect” to the block list.
• 助言 - Added “counsel” to the allow list.
• 勝負 - Added “battle”, “bout”, and “game” to the allow list.
• フランス語 - Added “frenchmen” to the block list.
• 老人 - Added “bad person” to the block list.
• 短期 - Chanted the alternative meaning “short term” to “short-term.”
• 血族 - Added “kin,” “kindred,” and “consanguinity” to the allow list.
• 周年 - Added “whole year” and “entire year” to the allow list.
• 確かに - Added “true that” to the allow list.
• 在外 - Added “foreign” to the allow list.
• 評判 - Updated the reading explanation.
• 裁判 - Updated the reading explanation.
• 職員 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 優秀 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 程 - Added “degree” to the allow list.
• 移動 - Added “vibration” to the block list.
• 沼 - Added collocations and three context sentences.
• 沼地 - Added “marsh” and “swamp” to the allow list, added collocations and three context sentences, and updated one context sentence.
• 大略 - Added “gist” to the allow list.
• 壊れ物 - Added “broken thing” and “broken article” to the warning list.
• 血脈 - Added ちみゃく and けちみゃく to the warning list.
• 冷える - Added “to grow cold”, “to get chilly”, and “to cool down” to the allow list.
• 無糖 - Added “sugarless”, “no sugar”, and “unsugared” to the allow list.
• 蒸れる - Added “to be stuffy” to the allow list.
• 忠告 - Added “warning” to the allow list.
• 沢 - Added collocations and three context sentences.
• 泥沼 - Added collocations and two context sentences.
• 未熟 - Made “unripe” the primary meaning, added “inexperienced” and “unskilled” as alternative meanings, moved “not good at” to the allow list, added “green” and “immature” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 賛成する - Added “to approve” as an alternative meaning and updated the meaning explanation.
• 潮時 - Updated the meaning explanation and added one context sentence.
• 日 - Added か to the reading warning list.
• 究明 - Added “clarification” to the allow list.
• 試食 - Added “sampling,” “food sampling,” “tasting,” “try,” “trying” to the allow list.
• 算定する - Added “to estimate” and “to appraise” to the allow list.
• 作業 - Moved “task” to the alternative meaning and moved “manufacturing” and added “job” to the allow list.
• 開始 - Added “begin,” “starting,” “open,” “initiation,” “initiate,” “initiating,” “commencement,” “commence,” and “commencing” to the allow list.
• 転送 - Moved “transmission” to the alternative meaning, added “transferring” and “forward” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 回転 - Moved “revolve” to the primary meaning, moved “rotation” to the alternative meaning, moved “revolution” and added “turnover,” “revolving,” “rotating,” “spin,” “spinning” to the allow list.
• 終了 - Added “ending,” “finishing,” “closing,” “completion,” and “conclusion” to the allow list.
• 返る - Updated the meaning explanation, changed a collocation pattern from “〜が返る” to “〜が + てくる form,” and updated the three collocations accordingly.
• 心願 - Moved “prayer” and “heart’s desire” to the allow list.
• 悪例 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 悪口 - Moved わるぐち to the primary reading, moved わるくち to the allow list, moved あっこう to the warning list, updated the reading explanation, added “bad-mouthing” as the primary meaning, added “trash-talk” as the alternative meaning, moved “verbal abuse,” “saying bad things,” “insult,” “slander,” and “bad-mouth” to the allow list, added “insult,” “criticism,” “derogatory comment,” “put-down,” and “name-calling” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
• 残品 - Added “remaining items” and “unsold items” to the allow list.
• 水曜日 and 木曜日 - Switched the order so 水曜日 is taught before 木曜日 on level 18.
• 自覚 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 対応 - Moved “dealing with” to the primary meaning, added “response” to the alternative meaning, moved “interaction,” “correspondence,” “coping with,” “dealing with,” “support,” “software support” to the allow list, added “corresponding to,” “responding to,” “taking measures,” “coping,” “dealing,” “corresponding”, “responding,” “addressing,” “handling,” “coping with,” “tackling,” “handle,” “deal with,” “address,” “cope with,” “deal,” “respond,” “respond to,” “correspond,” “correspond to,” and “cope” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and added collocations.
• 遠視 - Added “nearsighted” to the block list.
• 収める - Added “to finish something” to the allow list.
• 誘惑 - Updated the meaning explanation.
• 迷い - Added “temptation” to the block list.
• 潮時 - Added a context sentence.