Thank you! 
I decided to change it because the previous one was so MEH.
What I don’t understand is why do we need to learn the radical as “narwhal” and not use an official name… I find it harder to remember with the fake name…
The…official one? Which one are you referring to?
ナ is な in katakana. (Na)rwhal
Glad OP learned something new!
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Exactly, why not just use na? it’s a lot easier to remember than Narwhal…
And Narwhal isn’t the only radical with an odd name that has nothing to do with its meaning.
Well how would you fit “na” into mnemonics…
Why does it have to be related to the meaning? Even the “official” radicals dont always carry a meaning that has anything to do with the kanji they’re in.
For both of your points, I think youre missing the bigger picture. The point of radicals on this site is just to be able to create mnemonics to help you better remember kanji.
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I’d just use Na and relate it with katakana na, like any normal person…?
The official radicals carry a meaning that has to do with their story, and I think by creating odd names we kinda loose a fun part of learning kanji parts. They don’t have to do with the kanji THEY ARE IN, but rather with whatever they come from.
I was just testing WK to see if SRS helps, I’m actually at N2 level and just wanted to review higher level kanji anyway, so maybe that’s why I’m “missing the point”.
Yeah, that could just be why.
You’re wanting a different program. WK is designed to remember Kanji based off of mnemonics, certain names have been given to the radicals to help build the “story” of the larger Kanji. So the whole purpose of WK is that you learn the “names” of radicals to help, in a sense, learn the story of the larger/more complicated Kanji.
The seed that the whole WK SRS program is grown from the names they’ve assigned the radicals. If it wasn’t this way it would be a different program with (at least slightly) different goals.
Probably some early anthropologist trying to figure out why the Inuit don’t get scurvy on their traditional diet of basically all meat from sea creatures…
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