Post your top five most failed kanji! This isn't just for curiosity, maybe by discussing some of the most failed, who finds what easy/hard etc, then it will help the kanji stick?
Anyway, assuming you use RevTK, go to 'review', 'view detailed list' and organise your kanji by fail, and list your top five, the final number being the times failed.
Up to frame number: 720
339 訂 revise 5
449 皆 all 4
463 乾 drought 4
87 昭 shining 3
156 封 seal 3
Revise, I can't believe it won't stick. I've got the perfect story, for some reason I keep putting a schoolhouse primitive over it!
All I've only just worked a story down for, and I think it's in the second box now.
Drought, I keep thinking 'oh I know this one!' and write 減. I'm sure it's just a matter of time now.
Shining... I don't even want to talk about.
And I've got seal down now. I think.
I'm just over frame 1600.
451 渇 thirst 6
297 処 dispose 5
1040 幣 cash 5
1067 遅 slow 5
110 汐 eventide 4
Thirst, I never really had a good story for, but I've failed it so many times that I just remember it now.
Dispose I had down perfect until I started confusing it with discard...
Cash, I confused with other money keywords... to remember it, I use alliteration - when I see the keyword, I think Counterfeit Cash, and that reminds me of my specific story for cash.
Slow, I never had a good story for... something about going slow to avoid hitting sheep. I had to make it extremely visual for it to stick... those poor sheep...
Eventide. My story was good, but I kept confusing the moon and evening primitives.
I remember these all pretty well now, except dispose. I need a way to differentiate it from discard...
TaylorSan
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From: Colorado
Registered: 2009-01-03
Posts: 393
Top 5 Pain in the Ass Kanji
Currently at 2042 as of 3 weeks ago, with 16,259 total reviews
徳 benevolence -5/16
穂 ear (of a plant) -6/13
導 guidance -6/12
錠 lock -8-12
個 individual -7-12
I just hate benevolence and ear of a plant.....but I think I'm finally getting them
same with guidance
Lock I'll confuse clams with gold/and or my burglar story....sigh
And for some reason there's a nasty blank spot with individual, but I think at this point I pretty much got it.
One more that still drives me crazy......spit! For some damn reason I keep switching the positions.....same problem with polish.....
But maybe posting here will help me get it right too, LOL!
For me, I find most of my fails happen due to one piece out of place, or missing. I'm also now seeing super old kanji that I used to have solid, but time has eroded a bit....but not too worried....the SRS will freshen them up and carve them in.
Last edited by TaylorSan (2009 May 19, 2:41 am)
Wally
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Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 276
TaylorSan wrote:
Top 5 Pain in the Ass Kanji
Currently at 2042 as of 3 weeks ago, with 16,259 total reviews
徳 benevolence -5/16
穂 ear (of a plant) -6/13
導 guidance -6/12
錠 lock -8-12
個 individual -7-12
For guidance, make sure you understand than in the bizarre world that is kanji, the guidance signs are attached underneath the roadway, rather than above it. It's one weird kanji, so it needs a weird story. (How about, "In kanji-land, you have to drive upside down to see the roadway guidance."?) Or something like that.
harhol
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From: United Kingdom
Registered: 2009-04-03
Posts: 496
mafried wrote:
harhol, how did you extract that list out of Anki?
No extracting, I just went Edit >> Browse Items and sorted them by Ease using the drop down menu at the top right.
For guidance, I just think of a Sat Nav keeping you GLUED to the ROADWAY. Someone else's story I think, but it works for me.
Last edited by harhol (2009 May 19, 9:29 am)
isharabash
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From: United States
Registered: 2009-03-23
Posts: 36
160 均 level 6
117 砂 sand 5
135 願 petition 5
154 垣 hedge 5
175 墨 black ink 5
Since whend did we get an onyomi column? Awesome!
Level is... odd.
I keep on switching the primitives in sand to few boulders, not boulders few
Petition I would also switch, and then I came up with "metal head" to remember "meadow head"
Hedge is always a bit weird
I forget that dirt comes under for black ink, and hopefully my lastest revision will correct that
klaoth
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From: Alabama
Registered: 2009-04-16
Posts: 14
discipline 修 5/14
diligence 勤 6/18
genuine 純 6/19
rejoice 喜 5/16
distribute 配 6/19
*sorted by ease*
They don't like mee. ;; Not sure why I miss these, I can think of all the sentences fine whenever I'm not being tested on them.
Last edited by klaoth (2009 June 12, 3:08 pm)
digicult
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From: Vancouver
Registered: 2009-04-10
Posts: 6
916 誘 entice 5
799 常 usual 4
278 導 guidance 3
304 冠 crown 3
606 恩 grace 3
Nearly all of these I seem to know the story well as soon as I give up and flip the card over. Especially entice, great story but I seem to get it mixed up with beckon and seduce. Usual also gave me a lot of trouble, despite the obvious story: 'as usual, there's no TP in the outhouse, so I have to use a towel'.
Guidance I keep screwing up by putting the glue ON the road instead of under it. Grace, I just don't seem to be able to grasp at all. I have trouble making a good story from cause and heart.
It's interesting when I look at others' failed kanji: there seems to be little consistency. Most of those I find quite easy. Another thing I've noticed is that the singularly unusual kanji, like flower pot, tile, doubt, and dissolve, seem to be much easier than many of the 2-primitive kanji where one of the primitives is used very frequently (e.g. the multitude of person and thread kanji).
Last edited by digicult (2009 June 13, 3:07 pm)
Wally
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Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 276
digicult wrote:
916 誘 entice 5
799 常 usual 4
278 導 guidance 3
304 冠 crown 3
606 恩 grace 3
Nearly all of these I seem to know the story well as soon as I give up and flip the card over. Especially entice, great story but I seem to get it mixed up with beckon and seduce. Usual also gave me a lot of trouble, despite the obvious story: 'as usual, there's no TP in the outhouse, so I have to use a towel'.
Guidance I keep screwing up by putting the glue ON the road instead of under it. Grace, I just don't seem to be able to grasp at all. I have trouble making a good story from cause and heart.
Mark GRACE used to play for the Chicago Cubs. If ever there was a lost CAUSE, it would be the Cubs. And GRACE is what you need if your HEART constantly "supports" a lost CAUSE.
There. No more problem. 
Last edited by Wally (2009 June 13, 5:46 pm)
LunaSlave
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From: Ontario Canada
Registered: 2010-01-19
Posts: 12
my most failed? I seem to have a lot of trouble with 稲 (rice plant) - probably because I keep expecting it to have the primitive for rice in it, but it doesn't - it has the primitive for wheat in it. Now that I've written this post, I'm hoping I remember writing it, and that it will help me to remember what my problem with it was.
