Hello - I’m tuabiht, a new user of WaniKani. I’m currently level doing level 3, hoping to continue all the way to the end. (I have a JLPT N3, so for the moment it is more a useful review than real and hard learning). I have a problem with some of the radicals. Not with the names of them (I saw th…

The WaniKani radicals are just to help people who have no point of reference to Japanese make connections. If you care about how to write the kanji, or the dictionary radicals Japanese people learn, another resource would be more appropriate for you. BTW, the bottom line in the left side of 北 can i…

Ooo, ooo, think the one that bugs me the most is that the radical 易, “gravity”, is introduced as “sun” plus “wing”. Except that aside from the kanji 易 itself, literally every single other use of the radical on WaniKani has a “ground” between the “sun” and the “wing” - that is, like 場.

I read this and realized I had never even thought about. Coming from someone who is very new to Japanese like me. I started with hiragana and katakana just about a month ago and have been doing wanikani since shortly after I learned those. I just assumed that things would always have variations depe…

Thank you for your reply. Yes, you are right that computer fonts can show differences with hand-written kanjis.I guess I will simply continue my study with WK, and check the kanji writing in other sources when I’m in doubt.

+1 for your use of the word “topology”. I like that word.

Thanks - it looks interesting, I will give it a try.

Radical shape not exact for kanji

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There is also a script for WK that changes the font used for kanji during reviews: Jitai. That way you get to see them differently over time. I’m really liking it.

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