Wondering if anyone has any resources for learning the real radicals after becoming familiar with the kanji through WaniKani.
I learned kanji through WaniKani and am very grateful it provided such a low barrier of entry for knowledge I now utilize near-constantly. I’ve burned almost every single item except the new ones added in the past six months, and feel I truly have a strong grasp on all the jōyō kanji, mostly thanks to WaniKani.
However, part of lowering that barrier of entry involves a system of radicals that, well, isn’t actually real lol. This was no problem for the first year or so, but now it feels a little odd that I don’t know the real names of the radicals. It has actually come up in conversation multiple times by now and I end up having to draw them out in the air and it feels silly. And I would like to take the Kanji Kentei one day and I’ve heard you really need to know them properly for that.
Ah thanks this is great! Most are pretty intuitive but it looks like there’s just enough I might have to look for or make an Anki deck to cover them well enough.
Also wow, I had no idea that the one that looks like ネ with the extra bit (left side of 初) is just a compressed version of 衣 ! Some of this stuff is already changing how I see a lot of kanji already.
You can search a Kanji in wiktionary.org to see how traditional radicals work, though you have to click around a little to get into 康煕部首 - Wikipedia (and not a table, but rather 214 hyperlinks).