Relearning Radicals (部首)After WaniKani

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.

Anyone gone through this before?

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Maybe this thread would help?

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This page has a list of their names in Japanese:

How many people actually know them by those names, I couldn’t be entirely certain.

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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.

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If you can search radicals in https://www.weblio.jp and results also come up in [Userscript] WaniKani JJ External Definition from Weblio (JP) and Kanjipedia. (I stopped maintaining it and don’t know if it’s still working.)

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).

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