November 21, 2025
Wow, it's been over a month since my last update! So I've been down a lot of rabbit holes lately. I try to add one word and I go down a rabbit hole, and while I try to reach the end of it, I just end up going down a different rabbit hole.
Today's update is that I've changed the Chinese character that I'm using for the word "foot" (ka1). I used to use 腳 as the main character, and I listed 跤 as an alternate. I was looking at the different source that I consult, and the reason I did that is because both Mogher and CZYZD have 腳 in their dictionaries and no 跤. But WTCS lists 跤 as the main character! So I read through a whole thread in discord about why they made that decision and that's when I realized I should learn about how different readings are classified. So a character can have a colloquial reading and a literary reading. But there are also a bunch of other designations like "semantic loan".
...I still don't grasp a lot of it. But I seemed to be convinced enough to swap the main and the alt character for ka1. I think this will be a good topic for another lesson page.
Why was I even looking at ka1 in the first place?! Well, that will be explained in the next update!
Apart from all that, here are the translations I've added since the last update:
- back
- thunder
- to capture
- always
- pickled radish
- to bump into
- tree
October 11, 2025
I finally got around to adding a bunch of words that I learned from my family when I visited them a few weeks ago. I still have a huge backlog of words to add though!
New translations for today:
- to roll up
- to get married
- to go on vacation
- to get off work
- office
- hoe
- persimmon
- quiet
September 28, 2025
Most of my actual coding work has been on WTCS, but I'll still keep trying to add more translations here. Here's the latest set of words I added!
- sometimes
- dish eaten with rice
- bridge
- fitting, just right
- cigarette
- earthworm
September 24, 2025
Whooo it's been a while. I was visiting family for the past two weeks, and I have so many words in my backlog that I want to add! And also a lot of words that I learned and then promptly forgot about 😅 Here's what I added today:
- another translation for "family"
- zongzi
- pickled ginger
- sesame oil
- basket
- hitting stick
- classifier (for long, thin objects)
September 7, 2025
Just a few new words today!
- rope
- grass
- playing card
- family
- but