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
• 扌 or 才: 手
• 攵: 攴
• 彑: 彐
• 灬: 火
• 䒑 or 艹: 艸
• 氵: 水
• 忄: 心
• 犭: 犬
• 衤: 衣
• 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
• 幺 or 乡: 幺 Not to be confused with 糸, 糹 or 纟.

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.