I know there exist resources for writing practice for kanji sorted by WK level. But does such a thing exist anywhere for the radicals that WK uses to construct kanji? I’m trying to get into practicing writing kanji, and I was wondering if practicing writing out the radicals first might make it easier to remember the correct stroke order for the kanji that use them.
I wouldn’t worry about that. Some radicals do exist as stand alone kanji so you can practice those first if you want (for instance 耳, 又 and 走 before 取 and then 趣) but I don’t think it makes sense to write ⺭,宀 or 廴 on their own for instance. I mean, you can, but why?
A lot of the difficulty of kanji writing is to maintain proportions and balance while assembling these components together to form kanji. You need to get used to the flow of one component into the next. As you start developing a cursive style you’ll eventually learn to blend the components together. So I don’t think that practicing a component in isolation is very valuable overall.
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