Does anyone have a better mnemonic for differentiating 理 and 由 readings?

[Lupa]

was digging in the forums a bit and thought other people might be interested as well, so here it is (in the appendix)

Phonetic component resources?

https://sdsu-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.10/1203/Townsend_Hiroko.pdf This paper is how I first found out about phonetic components. It may be helpful to you, at the end of the paper she presents an appendix containing mostly and completely regular phonetic components. The paper itself is an interesting read on how phonetic components might be integrated into Japanese pedagogy. I never bothered to actually try to study phonetic components themselves, but I definitely noticed it b…

https://sdsu-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.10/1203/Townsend_Hiroko.pdf