# Radicals are driving me crazy. Lid and Roof look so similar **URL:** \ **Category:** Japanese Language\ **Created:** [May 6, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/radicals-are-driving-me-crazy-lid-and-roof-look-so-similar/36534 "2019-05-06T22:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Ncastaneda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ncastaneda/32/285473_2.png) [@Ncastaneda](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Ncastaneda)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/radicals-are-driving-me-crazy-lid-and-roof-look-so-similar/36534/6 "2019-05-06T23:24:24Z")
> [@Anime\_gasuki](#): > > Roof appears in the KAN phonetic component yeah, but then the phonetic part it’s not roof on itself … for example there’s 絵文字 → emoji (with a roof radical too) 🤷‍♂️.Though that’s a good strategy for guessing readings, once you become aware of some kanji been Keisei phonetic-semantic compounds (which also have a script here 😉). > [@\[Userscript\] Keisei 形声 Semantic-Phonetic Composition](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-keisei-%E5%BD%A2%E5%A3%B0-semantic-phonetic-composition/21479): > > warning This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. Keisei Semantic-Phonetic Composition by acm I am proud to release the stable version of my first script, Keisei Semantic-Phonetic Composition! Installation Instructions Get Tampermonkey (installation instructions [in this thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/visual-guide-on-how-to-install-a-userscript/12136)) Click on the [installation link](https://github.com/mwil/wanikani-userscripts/raw/master/wanikani-phonetic-compounds/wk_keisei.user.js) (Tampermonkey should auto-detect .user.js files) I… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.wanikani.com/t/radicals-are-driving-me-crazy-lid-and-roof-look-so-similar/36534)._