User:AKAAkira/Radicals
I search up kanji on Wiktionary via radicals - and, somewhat annoyingly, some radicals just look radically different from their base forms (pardon the pun). This page's just a note to myself of accumulated stupid radicals I've encountered - assuming I continue translating. Though, if anyone else stumbles onto this page you're certainly welcome to use/edit this page.
- 辶 or ⻌: 辵
- 刂: 刀
- 阝 (left side): 阜
- ⻏ (right side): 邑
- 糹 or 纟: 糸
- 乡: 幺
- 扌 or 才: 手
- 攵: 攴
- 彑: 彐
- 灬: 火
- 䒑 or 艹: 艸
- 氵: 水
- 忄: 心
- 犭: 犬
- 衤: 衣
- 礻: 示
- 丬: 爿
- ⺮: 竹
Just tricky ones:
- 亻: 人 Basically just a little fudging, just enough for someone to miss it. (If I didn't have a tiny bit of Chinese experience, this probably would've screwed me right from the beginning.)
- 戸: 戶 Woulda thought they were separate 一 or 尸
- 行: 行 Now this is tricky because the remainder of the kanji goes inside the radical. They're not separate.
- ⺼: 肉 Can easily be confused with 月
Other reminders:
- If it looks similar, click it. Sometimes they're nice enough to put in a "See also:" line if the kanji are too similar.
- Sometimes, the "What links here" button can offer a shortcut (Index:Chinese radical or Index:Chinese total strokes, perhaps even a counter-trace of the "See also:" links) if the trail looks like it's a dead end.
- Dump all the parts of a kanji into the search bar, or even Google. It might pop out related compounds.