Can't add 乾 to a study list

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I’m trying to add the character 乾 to my study list. 乾 as in one of the Eight Trigrams, not as in the traditional version of 干. The problem is that whenever I try to add the character, Skritter tries to be ‘helpful’ and translates it to 干. Is there a trick to get it to stop doing that? I’m having the same problem trying to add 於 to a list, 於 as in the surname, not the traditional form of 于. Same issue, it keeps getting interpreted incorrectly and translated to the wrong character (于). Is there a way to override this behavior for those odd characters that are both a simplified version, and a traditional version, depending on context? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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Interesting problem.

FYI, Pleco dictionary says 于 form or the old variant 亐 is the surname format (they do not include 於.) However Wikipedia Chinese version lists both. I’m not familiar with that surname myself.

Good luck with this.

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Have you tried using the “All Results” button that shows up next to the entry when adding it to a list? There’s a variant listing the definition as “sky” or “male” in Eight Trigrams

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Thanks Jeremy, I don’t see an “All Results” button on the normal Skritter site, but I do see it on the legacy site. That still doesn’t work for me, however, since it still lists 乾 as traditional only to the simplified 干 character, even for that definition. According to my dictionary, 干 is only the simplified version for the gān pronunciation, not for qián. The baidu page for the character seems to confirm this as well https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%BE/869328 as it states " 简体字 - 干（仅gān音）" in the description. Thanks!

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Hi both @kellyl and @Jeremy

There must be a way to do this, as I just encountered a review of 后 not as a simplified character but in its original meaning of “empress” etc. as a traditional character, and marked that way on the card (ie: the traditional card does not include the definition “after, behind” etc.)

I also get 后 as a distinct simplified character card that is a pair for the traditional card 後

(I study both traditional and simplified at once)