While studying kanji, I found myself constantly opening jisho.org to search the word in order to see what each individual kanji in a compound word mean. For example, I was studying 監督 and checked Jisho to see that 監 means “oversee, official” and 督 means “coach, command.” This made it easier to remember that 監督 means “supervision, director.”
I think it would be very useful to add these meanings to compound kanji as it makes it easier to understand and thus memorize the compound words.
I absolutely agree. Whenever vocab comes up that’s made up of kanji that I know, it’s noticeably easier to remember than other vocab. I’d love it if Bunpro were to slowly and gradually include more info on kanji. To be honest, I dream of the day Bunpro includes a full kanji learning course just like their grammar and vocab decks. I know this’ll likely stay a dream forever, but I’m not going to stop dreaming.
This would be helpful for myself as well. I’ve studied around 1900 kanji by know, and I could instantly recognize at least 90% of them I think. But even then the compound kanji trip me up sometimes. Some kanji compounds just don’t make sense with each other until you look into their etymology. Not that I’m asking for it to go that deep, this would still be a great help for me to rack my brain at the many different meanings kanji can have and determining what best fits based on the meaning.
As others have mentioned, it’s relatively high on our priority list!
You can expect it this year
