Update "Kanji Radicals Reference" Sheet

I started using the WaniKani “Kanji Radicals Reference” sheet (found on the Tofugo page “Learn Kanji With Radicals and Mnemonics: The Definitive Guide”).

A post from a few years ago notes some inconsistencies between the radicals in that sheet and the WaniKani app (radical name changes, essentially), but I have found cases where the radical list for a kanji is not found at all in the Radicals sheet, nor in WaniKani. For example, many kanji in the sheet include “Train” in their list of radicals. After looking up the same kanji in the other radicals’ list of kanji, I have figured out that the name in the “Radicals” sheet is “Spring.” So the kanji that list “Train” as a radical can be found in the kanji list for the radical “Spring.”

I understand WaniKani has been changed since the creation of the reference sheet, but I would’ve expected the reference sheet to at least be internally consistent. As it is, it would be very difficult to use for someone following the Tofugo article’s advice on how to use that sheet, and it is even difficult (not impossible, just inconvenient) to use the sheet in conjunction with WaniKani.

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I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect anyone to maintain a free resource that was created for a blog article back in 2017.

They barely even write on tofugu anymore. Pretty sure all sort of blogs are dying out, being replaced by instagram, tiktok and the like.

You could update the sheet yourself if you find it useful.

Fair enough.

I am willing to make my own copy and update that copy myself, but only if I know it’s legal to do so - and due to the fact that I don’t know if WaniKani has any sort or copyright on the sheet and what permissions they grant (I couldn’t find any mention of it either in the sheet itself or in the blog post), I am somewhat wary.

If you make a personal copy and don’t plan on redistributing it, it should not be a problem. They shared it with the readers openly. Who cares if you modify your copy.

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