Hello! I am new to WaniKani and was wondering if there was a script that highlighted radicals you already learned inside the lessons:
cross and ground as pink to indicate they are radicals I have already learned. Thanks so much!
Honestly reckon this is something vanilla WaniKani should do. Radical components are highlighted for kanji, why arenât they highlighted for other radicals?
@Mods ?
Are you sure you donât have some user script installed by any chance? I donât see highlighted components⌠(Iâm using Chrome on Android)
Nah, vanilla WaniKani. For example, the kanji 岸:
Meanwhile, the radical blue, which is described in almost exactly the same way as âYou have life on top of the moonâ, lacks any highlighting.
Though granted this is the itemâs actual page rather than the lesson. Confess itâs been a looong time since I did any lessons, so maybe itâs differentâŚ
Oh, then I misunderstood you. I mistakenly imagined that you were referring to something like what renshuu has:
Hm, this may be by design, as we teach radicals as stand-alone components that make up kanji and it might get a little confusing if we consciously break down radicals into more radicals.
That said, thatâs just my opinion, so Iâll bring it up to the team to see if itâs something we want to change.
Thanks so much! Do you think it would be complex to make a script for this if I wanted to try to do so.
I would agree that this is intentional. Radicals are not divisible (in practice; the form may be composed of different radicals, as with the previously mentioned radical é). I donât know whether there are official lists of radicals in Japanese, but I know that one of the most common lists of radicals in Chinese (Kangxi radicals) includes ä¸ (1), ĺ (24), and ĺ (32) as separate entities. If you were to look up a character in a dictionary indexed by radicals, a character with ĺ as the indexed component would not appear under ĺ. I think you may potentially confuse yourself if you start to think of radicals as entities composed of other radicals, because then every radical would eventually boil down to some combination of individual strokes and the mnemonic devices for kanji wouldnât work.
Futher, ĺ (Kangxi 32) and 壍 (33) are distinct radicals; the difference is the length of the first horizontal stroke relative to the second. I think this helps highlight why this particular example canât be divided into simpler pieces. I imagine both would be a combination of ĺ and ä¸ (or, if weâre allowing radicals to simplify, wouldnât this character end up as ä¸, ď˝, and ä¸? who decides where to stop simplifying?), but the components alone do not provide enough information.
Hereâs an example of a dictionary indexed by radicals (and, by extension, an example of why you donât want to do this):
