Now Out: 1 Radical Note, 38 Revisions, and 5 New-Monics

Today marks the last day of a month of intensive essay revisions while my graphic designer is on maternity leave. Next Friday I'll be back with a brand-new essay! For now there's a lot to report!

Radical Note 172 on the "old bird" radical 隹 has posted. See what’s old about the “old bird” radical, and find out why birds have flown into kanji such as 雅 (1057: elegance) and 離 (1897: separate). This resource is free!

Ulrike created the following new-monics:

拘 (1249: confining)
溝 (1263: ditch)
購 (1268: to buy)
催 (1293: to hold an event)
索 (1299: to search for)

She has now completed 1,900 memory tricks! That's an immense number! And it means we're nearly to the finish line!

And revisions have posted for the following essays:

• essay 1047 on 菓 (confection; cake; sweets)
• essay 1141 on 菊 (chrysanthemum)
• essay 1189 on 掘 (to dig, excavate)
• essay 1371 on 俊 (excellent; genius; talented person)
• essay 1587 on 駐 (parking; residing in; stationed)
• essay 1675 on 尿 (urine)
• essay 1841 on 妙 (marvelous; strange)
• essay 1847 on 銘 (inscription; established name; to engrave on one’s mind)
• essay 1891 on 酪 (dairy product)
• essay 1918 on 塁 ((baseball) base; small fort) 
• essay 1920 on 戻 (to return; revert; resume; restore; go backward)
• essay 1927 on 暦 (calendar, almanac)
• essay 1938 on 廊 (corridor; gallery)
• essay 1948 on 楷 (square character style)
• essay 1949 on 睦 (intimate, friendly, harmonious)
• essay 1950 on 釜 (metal pot)
• essay 1951 on 錮 (imprisonment)
• essay 1952 on 賂 (bribe)
• essay 1983 on 籠 (basket; cage; confinement; seclusion; to fill)
• essay 1995 on 熊 (bear)
• essay 1997 on 憬 (to yearn, long for; aspire to; admire; adore)
• essay 2000 on 桁 (digit; beam)
• essay 2009 on 傲 (arrogant)
• essay 2014 on 挫 (sprain; bruise; to discourage)
• essay 2018 on 柵 (fence with spaced slats)
• essay 2019 on 刹 (temple; セツ sound)
• essay 2040 on 凄 (amazing; frightening; to a great extent)
• essay 2053 on 爽 (refreshing)
• essay 2065 on 緻 (elaborate)
• essay 2069 on 捗 (to make progress)
• essay 2078 on 藤 (wisteria)
• essay 2081 on 頓 (sudden; to stay in place, stop)
• essay 2085 on 奈 (ナ sound)
• essay 2094 on 箸 (chopsticks)
• essay 2103 on 阜 (hill, mound; “left hill” radical)
• essay 2108 on 麓 (foot of a mountain)
• essay 2111 on 頬 (cheek)
• essay 2119 on 冶 (to work metals)

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