These are the content changes we made in May 2025.
Radicals
- 幺 - Added “poo” to the allow list.
- 羊 - Added “ram” and “goat” to the warning list.
- 光 - Moved “sunlight” to the allow list, added “light” as the primary meaning, added “shine,” “twinkle,” and “flash” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
Kanji
- 工 - Updated the reading hint.
- 文 - Updated the meaning hint.
- 草 - Added 苦 to visually similar kanji list.
- 束 - Added つか to the reading warning list.
- 紫 - Made むらさき the primary reading and し the alternative reading, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 属 - Added 層 to visually similar kanji list.
- 翌 - Added “the new” to the block list.
- 籍 - Moved “enroll” to the warning list, added “register” as the new primary meaning, added “book” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 縮 - Moved ちじ to the warning list.
- 光 - Moved “sunlight” to the allow list, added “light” as the primary meaning, added “shine” as an alternative meaning, added “flash” and “twinkle” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.
- 羊 - Added “ram” to the allow list, and added “goat” to the warning list.
- 隊 - Added “party,” “group,” “unit,” “team,” and “regiment” to the allow list, and added “band” to the warning list.
- 換 - Added 喚 to visually similar kanji list.
- 輝 - Updated the meaning mnemonic.
- 黄 - Added 異 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 番 - Moved “ordinal number” to the allow list.
- 追 - Added 迫 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 暑 - Updated the meaning explanation and the reading explanation.
- 圧 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 厚 - Updated the meaning explanation and the reading explanation.
- 宴 - Added “party” as an alternative meaning and added “feast” and “dinner party” to the allow list.
- 乏 - Added 之 to the visually similar kanji list.
- 墓 - Updated the radical ordering, added “tomb” as an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning and reading mnemonics and hints.
- 甘 - Updated the reading explanation and hint.
- 鉢 - Changed the primary meaning to “flower pot,” moved “bowl” to be an alternative meaning, added “pot,” “basin,” and “flowerpot” to the allow list, and update the meaning and reading mnemonics and hints.
- 零 - Added “0” to the allow list.
Vocabulary
- 下手 - Added “not good” to the warning list, added “skilled at” to the block list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 見方 - Updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 仕方 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 考え方 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 言い方 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 強い - Updated the reading explanation.
- 地中海 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 受け取る - Added “to release” to the block list.
- 去る - Added “to learn” to the block list.
- 味方 - Updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 予め - Updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 丁度いい - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 都合 - Added “conference” to the block list.
- 鼻くそ - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 両側 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 反省 - Added “resource” to the block list.
- 面倒臭い - Updated the reading explanation.
- 副題 - Added “secondary title” as an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 紫 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 紫色 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 収入 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 独特 - Updated one context sentence.
- 現役 - Updated one common word combination, added one common word combination.
- 無我 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 隠れる - Moved “to be hidden” to be an alternative meaning, added “to hide oneself” as the primary meaning, added “to hide” as an alternative meaning, added “to be concealed,” “to conceal oneself,” “to take refuge,” “to take cover,” “to be hidden from view,” “to hide away,” “to be hidden away,” “to get hidden,” “to get hidden away,” and “to be obscured” to the allow list, added “to disappear,” “to be lost,” “to go out of sight,” “to be covered,” and “to lurk” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 切腹 - Added はらきり to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 手掛かり - Moved “a clue” to the allow list, added “handhold” as an alternative meaning, added “hint” to the allow list, added “foothold” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 金庫 - Moved “safe” to the allow list, added “vault” as an alternative meaning, added “personal safe,” “bank vault,” “safety deposit box,” “a vault,” “safe deposit box,” and “strongbox” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 車庫 - Added “car storage,” “vehicle storage,” “depot,” “depots,” and “carport” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 面接する - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 略す - Added “to shorten” as an alternative meaning, added “to leave out,” “to leave something out,” “to leave out something,” “to skip,” “to skip something,” “to abridge,” and “to abridge something” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and added one context sentence.
- 腹切り - Added せっぷく to the warning list, added “belly cutting,” “stomach cutting,” “abdomen cutting,” “disembowelment,” and “seppuku” to the allow list, added “suicide” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 捜索 - Updated the meaning explanation and added “searching,” “official investigation,” “official search,” “make a search,” “making a search,” “making a search of,” “make a search of,” “investigate,” “investigating,” “look for,” “looking for,” and “search operation” to the allow list, and added “hunt” and “hunting” to the warning list.
- 閣僚 - Added “cabinet secretaries” and “cabinet members” as alternative meanings, added “cabinet minister,” “cabinet member,” “member of the cabinet,” “ministry,” “minister,” “ministers,” “cabinet secretary,” “secretaries,” and “secretary” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 大臣 - Moved “cabinet member” to the allow list, added “cabinet minister,” “state minister,” and “secretary of state” as alternative meanings, added “secretary” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 倒壊 - Moved “crumbling” to the allow list, added “falling down” as an alternative meaning, added “crumbling apart,” “collapsing,” “be destroyed,” “being destroyed,” “fall down,” “crumble,” “get destroyed,” “getting destroyed,” and “crumble apart” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 居眠り - Moved “nap” to the warning list, moved “dozing off” to be the primary meaning, moved “doze” and “dozing” to the allow list, added “nod off,” “doze off,” “dozing,” “drowse,” “drowsing,” “drowsing off,” “drowse off,” “take a doze,” “taking a doze,” “fall asleep,” and “falling asleep” to the allow list, added “nod,” “nodding,” “nap,” “napping,” “take a nap,” “taking a nap,” “sleep,” and “sleeping” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 鼻詰まり - Moved “blocked nose” to the allow list, added “nasal congestion” as an alternative meaning, and added “stuffed up nose” to the allow list.
- 航空券 - Added “airline ticket” and “air ticket” to the allow list, added “flight,” “boarding pass,” and “airfare” to the warning list.
- 倉庫 - Added “storage,” “storage shed,” and “depot” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 股 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 鍋 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 渋い - Added “bitter flavour” to the allow list.
- 排他 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 排除 - Added “exclude,” “remove,” “excluding,” “removing,” “eliminate,” “eliminating,” “get rid of,” and “getting rid of” to the allow list, added “evict,” “evicting,” and “eviction” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 拠る - Moved “to be due to” to be an alternative meaning, moved “to be caused by” to the allow list, added “to be based on” as the primary meaning, added “to depend on” as an alternative meaning, added “to depend” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 国籍 - Moved “citizenship” to be an alternative meaning, added “nationality” as the new primary meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 戸籍 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 懇談 - Added three new context sentence translations, added common word combinations.
- 懇親 - Moved “intimacy” to the allow list, added “camaraderie” as an alternative meaning, added “fellowship” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, added three context sentence translations, and added common word combinations.
- 入籍 - Added “registration of marriage” as an alternative meaning, added “enter in family register,” “entering in family register,” “register one’s marriage,” “registering one’s marriage,” “register marriage,” “registering marriage,” and “marriage registration” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 紫外線 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 俗語 - Moved “colloquialism” and “colloquial language” to the allow list, added “slang” as the new primary meaning, added “slang word,” “slangy word,” and “informal language” to the allow list, added “argot” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 噴水 - Added “fountain” to the allow list.
- 渦巻き - Added “vortex,” “maelstrom,” “swirl,” and “spiral” to the allow list.
- 楓糖 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 妄想 - Added “wild delusion” and “wild fancy” to the allow list.
- 根本 - Added “fundamental” and “fundamentals” to the allow list, added “basic” and “basics” to the warning list, and updated one common word combination.
- 開閉 - Moved “opening and shutting” to the allow list, added “open and close” and “open and shut” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 脱字 - Added “missed character,” “typo,” “missed letter,” “missing letter,” “missed word,” “dropped letter,” “dropped character,” and “dropped word” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 突く - Added “to solve” to the block list.
- 定量 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 鉛筆 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 結構です - Moved “no thanks” to the allow list, added “I’m fine” as an alternative meaning, added “I’m alright” to the allow list, added “it’s fine,” “it’s fine with me,” “I’m satisfied,” “I’m satisfied with,” “I’m content,” “I’m content with,” “I’m happy,” and “I’m happy with” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 南極 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 並 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 退く - Updated the meaning explanation, and updated one context sentence translation.
- 移住 - Added “emigration” to be an alternative meaning, added “emigrate,” “emigrating,” “immigrate,” “immigrating,” “migrate,” “migrating,” “relocation,” “relocate,” “relocating,” “resettle,” and “resettling” to the allow list, added “move,” “moving,” “settle,” “settle in,” “settling,” and “settling in” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 貸し〜 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 奇妙 - Added “bizarre” as the primary meaning, moved “strange” to be an alternative meaning, added “peculiar” to be an alternative meaning, moved “curious” to the warning list, added “weird,” “eccentric,” “unusually strange,” and “unusually odd” to the allow list, added “funny” and “queer” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 請ける - Moved “to take” to the allow list, added “to take on” as the primary meaning, moved “to receive” to the allow list, added “to take something on” and “to take on something” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 濡らす - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 遊園地 - Updated one context sentence translation.
- 衛生 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 裏切り - Added three context sentence translations.
- 裏切る - Added one context sentence translation.
- 裏切り者 - Added one context sentence translation.
- 行為 - Added one context sentence translation.
- 執筆 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 悔やむ - Added “to doubt” to the block list.
- 足 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 光 - Moved “sunlight” to the allow list, added “flash” as an alternative meaning, added “twinkle” to the allow list, added “shine” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 日光 - Added “daylight” to the warning list.
- 月光 - Added “moonshine” to the warning list, added “sunbeam” and “sunshine” to the block list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 羊 - Added “ram” as an alternative meaning, added “goat” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 光る - Added “to flash” as an alternative meaning, added “to twinkle,” “to gleam,” “to glimmer,” “to sparkle,” “to glare,” and “to be bright” to the allow list, added “to glisten” and “to stand out” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 対する - Added “to be connected” to the block list.
- 立場 - Added “stand,” “standing point, and “standing” to the allow list, added “footing,” “ground,” “place,” “shoes,” and “angle” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 青葉 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 役場 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 乗り場 - Moved “boarding area” to be the primary meaning, moved “bus stop” to be an alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 運動 - Added “movement” and “motion” as alternative meanings, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 場合 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 列 - Added “column” as an alternative meaning, added “file” and “line up” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 守る - Added “to cover” to the block list.
- 場面 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 若布 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 穴場 - Added “hidden gem” as the primary meaning, added “hidden spot” as an alternative meaning, moved “hole in the wall” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, updated the reading explanation, and updated a context sentence translation.
- 解決 - Moved “solving” to the primary meaning, moved “solution” and “settlement” to the alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation, replaced one context sentence with two new sentences, and added collocations.
- 観光 - Added “tourist” and “sight” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 坊主 - Moved “Buddhist priest” and “close-cropped hair” to the allow list, added “Buddhist monk” as the primary meaning, added “boy” as an alternative meaning, added “skin head” and “skinhead” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 坊さん - Moved “monk” to the allow list, added “Buddhist monk” as the primary meaning, added “priest” and “Buddhist priest” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 大統領 - Added three context sentence translations.
- 現場 - Updated the meaning explanation and the reading explanation.
- 職場 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 残額 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 置き場 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 光景 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 光栄 - Added “glory” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 狭める - Added “to narrow something down,” “to scope down,” “to scope something down,” and “to scope down something” to the allow list, moved “to reduce” and “to reduce something” to the warning list, added “to limit” and “to limit something” to the warning list, and added three common word combinations.
- 栄光 - Added “honor” and “honour” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 迷子 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 階段 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 段階 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 入隊 - Moved “enlist in the army” to the allow list, added “enlistment” as the primary meaning, added “enlisting,” “enlisting in the army,” and “joining the army” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 隊 - Updated vocabulary from ～隊 to 隊, moved “party” to the allow list, added “unit” as an alternative meaning, added “group” and “regiment” to the allow list, added “band” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 郵便箱 - Moved “mailbox” to be an alternative meaning, added “postbox” as the primary meaning, added “collection box” as an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 猛〜 - Added “intense” as an alternative meaning, moved “energetic” to the warning list, added “very strong,” “very hard,” “severe,” “extreme,” and “violent” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated one context sentence translation.
- 詰める - Added “to pack” as an alternative meaning, added “to pack in,” “to push in,” “to push,” “to stuff,” “to cram,” “to fill,” “to fill up,” “to squeeze in,” “to squeeze,” “to fit in,” “to fit,” “to tightly fit,” “to tightly fit in,” “to plug,” and “to stop up” to the allow list, added “to shorten,” “to reduce,” “to narrow,” “to narrow down,” “to concentrate,” “to persist,” “to grill on,” “to grill,” “to move,” “to move over,” “to scoot,” “to scoot over,” “to work on,” and “to work out” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 省略 - Moved “abbreviation” to be an alternative meaning, added “omitting” as the primary meaning, added “leaving out” as an alternative meaning, moved “omission,” “abbreviate,” and “leave out” to the allow list, added “abridgment,” “abridging,” “shorten,” and “shortening” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 略語 - Added “acronym” as an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 略す - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 勧誘 - Added “solicit,” “soliciting,” “invite,” and “inviting” to the allow list, added “ask,” “asking,” “ask for,” and “asking for” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 監視 - Moved “observation” to be an alternative meaning, moved “surveillance” to be the primary meaning, moved “monitor” and “keep watch over” to the allow list, added “monitoring” as an alternative meaning, added “observe,” “observing,” “keeping watch over,” “keep watch on,” “keeping watch on,” “watch,” “watching,” “keep an eye on,” “keeping an eye on,” “guard,” “lookout,” “observer,” “watcher,” “supervision,” “supervising,” and “supervise” to the allow list, added “life guard” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 漏れる - Added “to seep” and “to seep out” to the allow list, added “to escape,” “to get out,” “to be omitted,” “to be left,” “to be left off,” “to be left out of,” “to slip out of,” “to be missing,” “to wet,” “to shit,” “to soil,” “to come through,” “to shine through,” “to filter through,” “to be divulged,” “to be disclosed,” “to pee oneself,” “to pee yourself,” “to pee one’s pants,” and “to pee your pants” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 絶える - Added “to endure” to the block list.
- 墓 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 墓場 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 飛び込み - Added “flying in” to the block list.
- 磁場 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 脚 - Moved “foot” to the warning list, added “lower limb” as an alternative meaning, added “leg and foot,” “legs and feet,” “legs,” and “lower limbs” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 光年 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 光輝 - Added “splendour,” “glory,” “brilliance,” “radiance,” and “shine” to the allow list, added “koki,” “kouki,” “mitsuki,” and “mitsuteru” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 奨学金 - Added しょうがっきん to the warning list.
- 噴煙 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 貫く - Added “to follow through” as an alternative meaning, moved “to penetrate,” “to persist,” and “to stick to” to the allow list, added “to penetrate,” “to persist,” “to stick to,” “to carry through,” “to carry out,” “to push through,” “to pierce through,” “to run through,” “to stay true,” “to stick with,” “to stick through,” and “to pass through” to the allow list, added “to flow through,” “to keep,” and “to maintain” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, and replaced the context sentence with five new sentences.
- 貫き通す - Added a new context sentence.
- 風呂場 - Updated the meaning explanation and the reading explanation.
- 父 - Added “my father” as an alternative meaning, moved “dad” to the allow list, added “my dad,” “our dad,” and “our father” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- お父さん - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 母 - Added “my mother” as an alternative meaning, moved “mom” to the allow list, added “my mom,” “our mom,” “our mother,” “mum,” “my mum,” and “our mum” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- お母さん - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 間 - Added “interval of space” as an alternative meaning, added “spatial interval,” “space,” “gap,” and “duration” to the allow list, moved “time interval” and “between” to the allow list, moved “room” to the warning list, updated the reading explanation, added two new common word combinations, and added one new context sentence.
- 一番 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 二番 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 表す - Updated the reading explanation.
- 集める - Updated the reading explanation.
- 一番目 - Updated the primary meaning to “the first thing”, moved “first thing” to be an alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation, and updated one context sentence translation.
- 三番目 - Updated the primary meaning to “the third thing”, moved “third thing” to be an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 若者 - Added “young people” to the allow list.
- 立入禁止 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 余る - Updated the reading explanation.
- 改まる - Added a new context sentence.
- 強制 - Moved “compulsory” to be an alternative meaning, made “forcing” the primary meaning, moved “obligation,” “mandatory,” “obligatory,” and “coercion” to the allow list, added “compulsion” as an alternative meaning, added “force” and “enforcement” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 雨戸 - Updated the reading explanation.
- 現れる - Updated the reading explanation.
- 現す - Updated the reading explanation.
- 居酒屋 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 巻きずし - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 迫害 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 迷惑 - Added “bother,” “troubling,” “annoying,” “bothering,” “be annoyed,” “being annoyed,” “be troubled,” “being troubled,” “be bothered,” “being bothered,” “bothersome,” “annoyed,” “bothered,” and “troubled” to the allow list, added “give trouble,” “giving trouble,” “give someone trouble,” “giving someone trouble,” “put to trouble,” “putting to trouble,” “put someone to trouble,” “putting someone to trouble,” “annoy,” “annoy someone,” “annoying someone,” “bother someone,” “bothering someone,” “junk,” and “spam” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.
- 公益 - Added “public good,” “public welfare,” “public service,” “common good,” “benefit of the public,” and “good of the public” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and added two new context sentences.
- 幼稚 - Added “children” to the block list.
- 昇る - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 宴会 - Added “drinking party” and “reception” to the allow list and updated the meaning explanation.
- 宴 - Added “bacchanal” as an alternative meaning, added “drinking party” to the allow list, moved “feast” and “dinner party” to the allow list, added えん to the reading warning list, and updated the meaning and reading explanations.
- 掲示板 - Added “notice board” to the allow list.
- 墓 - Added “tomb” as an alternative meaning, updated the meaning explanation, and added 12 new common word combinations.
- 富む - Updated the meaning explanation and updated one context sentence translation.
- 一人暮らし - Updated the reading explanation.
- 逃がす - Updated the primary reading to “to let someone escape”, updated the alternative meanings to “to let someone go” and “to let someone free”, added “to let something go,” “to set something free,” “to let something escape,” and “to let escape” to the allow list, added “to let out,” “to let something out,” and “to let someone out” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.
- 〜畳 - Added five new common word combinations and three new context sentences.
- ホッチキス - Updated the meaning explanation, updated four of the common word combinations, and updated one of the context sentences.
- 鉢 - Changed the primary meaning to “flower pot,” moved “bowl” to be an alternative meaning, moved “basin” to the allow list, and added “pot” and “flowerpot” to the allow list.
- 火鉢 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 鉢巻 - Updated the meaning explanation.
- 尼 - Updated the reading explanation.