Combining similar kanji in meaning in one card

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Proxx Member
From: ドイツ Registered: 2007-01-26 Posts: 149 Website

Ok,

I don't know if this has been discussed before and it doesn't apply for the rtk website.
But since recently I am using anki for reviewing the kanji and I thought about another way of handling the troublesome, similar (or same) in meaning, kanji.

Would it be any hurt to my learning process to join two flashcards with almost similar kanji? So for example, I would combine hear 聞 and listen 聴.
The question flashcard would be: "hear/listen [2]". As an answer both kanji are expected.

Of course you would have to carefully select the kanji that you don't miss important differences, but for this example, as far as I know, even some Japanese people don't know the difference without think about it. Why should I torture myself by trying to distinguish them?

I would love to hear your comments about that. If there are no major drawbacks I'll probably go with this.

PrettyKitty Member
From: USA Registered: 2007-07-02 Posts: 178

I don't really think of 'hear' and 'listen' as the same thing, nor 聞 and 聴. Similar, but not the same.

What happens if you get 聞 correct and miss 聴?

you could just have two cards like this
聞 hear (easier one)
聴 listen (harder one)

or
聞 hear (a noise, someone talking)
聴 listen (to music)

Proxx Member
From: ドイツ Registered: 2007-01-26 Posts: 149 Website

I think they don't have this distinction in Japanese, but maybe this was also an suboptimal example. There is a list here in this forum with easily confused kanji (http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=1256), so let's take heal 療 and healing 癒.
If I would combine them to one flashcard, they'd also be grouped logically together, and whenever I think bout heal OR healing, both kanji would pop automatically in my mind.

At least that's what I suppose...

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kfmfe04 Member
From: 台北 Registered: 2007-10-21 Posts: 487

In my POV, the tricky part is, I would like to learn those kanji together (easier to learn and to distinguish), but test them apart (because they don't show up together in real life).

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