Wanikani-like system for the rarer kanjis not taught here?

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Hey everyone …

Pretty much everyday now i come up against at least 10-15 new kanjis that are completely outside the wanikani system through my immersion… like the word 翡翠 (hisui), which means jade, as in jade necklaces, which i got from a Haruki Murakami novel today… love that one! (the word , and also the novel)

I estimate i’ll need to memorize anything between 400 and 800 additional kanjis at minumum outside the wanikani system to reach true and complete proficiency, especially all those kanjis used in names.

I think i’ll probaly soak most of those additional kanjis through osmosis as i continue to immerse and read, but i wonder if there was another site or app that provides a similar system to wanikani (radicals - kanji - vocab) to teach all those “rarer” kanjis …

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Wanikani is pretty much just SRS I think so at that point you probably just want to start looking into a customised anki setup where you add the rare words you see, or something like that

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Forget about radicals, and having Kanji learnt before vocabularies. In the end, rarer vocabularies, but made from easy Kanji, also matter as much. Easier Kanji will be noticed not to really be known yet.

That is, after some point, learning by Kanji listings matters much less than by vocabularies.

I’d suggest mining / picking up from context (e.g. with Yomitan) or book decks (e.g. jpdb.io); rather making an SRS from a Kanji dictionary (which is also doable, actually).

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