Patterns that aren’t exactly highlighted in the lessons or derive their meaning from their radicals.
For example, kanji that contain 月 are body parts, such as 肺(lung)、腹(stomach)、腕(arm)、脳(brain). Another example: kanji containing 复are typically read as ふく (side note: these are easy for me to remember because the mnemonic for this is f**k ). While not universal of course, these little patterns are a wonderful additional help during reviews when I can’t remember the mnemonic.
I’ve seen some of them may be mentioned as one-off in hints sometimes, but not in every entry that follows a certain pattern.
The reason the radical 月 indicates body parts is because as a radical it’s also a variant of 肉. Covergent etymology, kind of thing.
And yeah, some radicals tend to lend their reading to kanji - for example, kanji with the radical 工 are quite frequently read as こう. There’s a userscript that highlights when these occur - it’s here
Ah, I primarily use my mobile device for all WK reviews and lessons, so I can’t make great use of that script. But the script looks great! Maybe I should start doing lessons on my computer from now on.
Nope, iOS and it’s a native app. It has some functionality from userscripts bundled in, but the semantic-phonetic component isn’t one of them.
(I think my discourse is broken, trying to type “moon”, but after one character, my text box loses focus). I checked out that script, but it doesn’t mention anything about moon being a character for body parts.
It’s probably worth installing on your computer just for reference. The information shows up during lessons and reviews, but it also shows up on the kanji pages so you can reference it whenever you want.
). While not universal of course, these little patterns are a wonderful additional help during reviews when I can’t remember the mnemonic.
(I think I’ve heard that somewhere before).