Is this a mistake?

[carlomattia02 (Sannik)]

In italian the words means, from above: throat, be dry, be thirsty.
Is the second kanji of “be thirsty” correct?
Shouldn’t it be like the kanji from “be dry”?
Thank you

[Milamy (Mila)]

Hi @carlomattia02

As this is an issue related to the official Japanese course, it is best to post in the official forum: [Course Forum] Japanese 1-7 by Memrise
Currently the Japanese Language Specialist at Memrise is: KanaTsumoto

But in this case there is no need because the question you are asking has already been answered previously in the forum that I have informed you above.

I’ll put the link to the question and the answer below:

[Course Forum] Japanese 1-7 by Memrise

Hello, thanks for the course it’s great! I have two simple questions so far: Why is the kanji for KAWAITE different in 乾いています and in 喉が渇いています ? Does 好きです apply only to food, or also to persons, animals, countries, books… ? Thanks for your answers. Have a great day !

[Course Forum] Japanese 1-7 by Memrise

The following is to the best of my knowledge, so anybody feel free to correct me if I’m wrong If I were mean, I’d say your first question is wrong There’s no such thing as “a kanji for a reading”. There are roughly 100 sounds in the Japanese language (unvoiced, voiced etc.). On the other hand, there are more than 2.000 commonly used kanji, and more than 40.000 kanji overall. So you just can’t have a separate sound for each kanji. Many times you’ll find kanji that are read …

[carlomattia02 (Sannik)]

Thank you Milamy for your help!
Next time I’ll do as you suggested

[KanaTsumoto (Kana)]

Thank you @carlomattia02 for asking this and @Milamy for guiding them to the answer:)
The old Japanese courses do teach some odd items like that. We did a little update for English but hope to update the course for Italian users soon too. I’m sorry for the inconvenience!