Do you use the Mnemonics or opt for rote memorization?

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@ephemient

I dunno. Looking through last level’s kanji, I remembered them as
告 - 口 something; 達 - 友達; 焼 - 火 something, 焼く; 借 - 昔 something; 弓 - 弓道; 脳 - that PvZ song; 喫 - 喫茶店, 等 - 竹 something; 枚; 忘 - 亡 sound; 訓; 種; 報 - 新×服; 句; 許; 可; 祈 - 示 something; 僧; 禁; 静 - 青 sound; 座; 煙 - 火 something; 汽 - 水×气; 験 - 険 sound; 試 - 式 sound; 類; 洗 - 水 something, アライグマは洗う; 禅 - 示×単
so I only really thought about the radical breakdown for half of them, and after getting the vocab unlocked, I just remember them in the context of other words.

I’m not really sure how to explain it. It’s sort of the same as reading English - you see the shape of a written word, and the concept pops up, without decoding the letters in it. Just a lot slower, which just means I need more practice.

It’s perfect when it works for you. With your background you seem like a special case, though

As long as you remember the something in for example “借 - 昔 something” as well, or you might get confused when 惜措 comes up.

You might be interested in my scripts to check similar kanji that could cause trouble, or see phonetic components you don’t know yet.

[Userscript] Niai 似合い Visually Similar Kanji
[Userscript] Keisei 形声 Semantic-Phonetic Composition