掲示板 Forums - Terms that should contain kanji have reverted to all hiragana

There was an update done against the edict dictionary file, and a lot of terms that were not yet bound to that (but had been in the site for a long time) were finally bound (manually).

What about the setting under Kanji that says "Show kanji for terms commonly shown in hiragana" ?

It would be nice if there was a way to study words "rarely" (fairly commonly) written in kanji without also having to study actually rare/archaic kanji usage as well. I have actually seen 何処 in writing before, but 瓦斯, the kanji for きっと and じっと, etc, I do not find useful (I would type these words in kanji, but these words are so rarely written in kanji, my IME can't convert them). Some words have separate entries for all kana, all kanji, and/or mixed kana/kanji, so you can choose the version you want to study, but many words have just the one entry, where the kanji are marked as rare, so if you want to study the version with kanji for some of those words, you have to study the kanji version of a bunch of other words that are almost never written that way anymore, because the setting for displaying kanji instead of kana is all or nothing.

Oh, of course! I know you're always responsive to issues, and I'd never think you'd do anything intentional to upset users. That's why I've stuck around for so long and why I don't hesitate to open issues if I find them.

I was the one who brought up the 上げる/挙げる issue, using the "report mistake" function. And thanks for removing the "rarely written as kanji" from those. They, along with 揚げる, now show up with their proper kanji in schedules. That issue in itself highlights the problem with "rarely written" words. While it's true that you see あげる, you just as often see 上げる, especially in compound verbs. And 上げる and 挙げる, though they basically mean the same thing, can be used differently. It's important to be able to study all versions.

I know you're not the actual person deciding if something is rare or not. It's common across all the different Japanese dictionaries, but I personally take "rarely written as kanji" notations with a grain of salt. An example is 頃. It's always listed as rarely written in kanji, but in news articles and official statements it's part of the standard notation for time when the time is approximate: ４時２０分頃. You see both ごろ/ころ and 頃, depending on what you're reading. Beginners might best start out studying the hiragana versions, but they'll run into the kanji version soon enough and may want to study it. As htatsuha suggested, a way to individually mark words to display with kanji or kana might be a solution to problems like this instead of an all or nothing setting. (As someone who's done software development, I know that, depending on how the program is set up, such a change might be simple to do, or it might require a complete rewrite of everything, so I understand any hesitation you might have on that.)

As I go through my schedules, I'll collect words that I think you could unmark and post them. Thanks!

Adding a couple of words that I've found:

予め
改善

I see both used with either kanji or hiragana.

Thanks! It also looks like you went through the Kanji Kentei lists and fixed those that had been made hiragana. I have a kanji-only study list made up of Kanji Kentei terms, and I just noticed yesterday that there were a number of words marked as can't study because they no longer had any kanji. I was going to post them today, but they suddenly all showed back up in my quiz.