Or does the fun never stop?
You stop learning WaniKani radicals at WaniKani level 60
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Once you get to level 46, there are a small amount (3 or less) and few kanji are based on them. Thatâs how the final levels go much faster than the early ones. Because perfect accuracy on the level-up kanji provides 90% or higher kanji completed, you will level up as you Guru the radicals, adding the kanji from those radicals to your initial list for the next level.
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You can get a great overall view of things on this WaniKani Statistics page - just use the link to enter your API key.
Great! Thatâs more the answer I was looking for. I have a college Japanese class and itâs hard to learn the vocabulary with the radical mnemonic method when I havenât learned the radicals yet. Would you say around that level is when you know enough radicals to tackle most kanji?
Thank you.
It never ends.
What? Youâve never seen the 麤 radical?
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Levels 1-12 are the ones where you get hammered with radicals. After level 13 youâll be getting less than 10 radicals per level, and then after level 32 youâre pretty much only getting 3-6 per level. Every level has some, though, until level 50. In levels 51-60 thereâs a grand total of 7 radicals across the 10 levels, so some wonât have any.
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What the hell is that monstrosity?
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Itâs not that bad. Itâs just the same thing repeated 3 times. I would say that actually makes it easier to learn.
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Well it would just hurt your hand a lot to write I suppose.
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鏎鏹čŽééé¸ĺľéé¸çą˛éžéžéąťéş¤ 
(Itâs from the Kanji Kentei level 1)
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Iâm definitely checking out that link b/c it looks useful, but oh god on my screen the characters in that phrase are so condensed it looks like a barcode
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My eyes!
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After level 15 or so, a large number of the âradicalsâ youâll see are previous kanji being reintroduced as radicals with the hope that youâll be able to recognise them at a glance by that point, making something that has six radicals within a composite of one complex shape you already know well and two other radicals that modify it.
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I donât think anyone has mentioned this yet, but fyi because there is technically no universal standard for radicals, the âradicalsâ you learn here may be quite different from the radicals you learn in your class⌠if you learn radicals in your class. The radicals you learn here are just WKs way of breaking down kanji so theyâre easier to learn, whereas radicals you might learn in your class are meant for looking up kanji in a dictionary. Also, you might learn in class that there is only one radical in any kanji - again, WK uses them for a very different purpose, which is why we talk about a kanji containing multiple radicals here but you will likely never encounter that anywhere else!
Our teacher doesnât really go over radicals in great detail. Sometimes sheâll mention it, but she doesnât use it as a memorization method so I havenât had that conflict. Thank you!
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You know, itâs times like this when I really buy the whole Kanji thing.
Just pasted into discord:
Cleartype seems to have done me a disservice in this instance.
Do PC users in Japan use larger font settings normally?
Yes.
Also what kanji even is that. My best guess is éş, but thats obviously wrong.
Edit: nvm that last part.
麤 is the original form of ç˛, meaning âcoarse/roughâ, as far as I can tell.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/麤
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