Hi Jref,
I've been "studying" radicals on WaniKani for the last few days and have reached a point where I can practice my first Kanji.
Now I'm being told that the Kanji for eight consists of one radical, but in my opinion the Kanji and Radical don't look the same at all. (except for the left part of the Kanji and Radical. I mean, you could swap the right side of the Radical 180° on the vertical axis, but the top part would still be missing, except if you bent the swapped right side and elongated it - but what's the sense of using radicals to identify Kanji then? "The right side" of the Kanji looks like as a seperate radical to me)
Wani Kani has their own Radical:Name mapping and make you memorize Kanji by learning the Radicals that go inside Kanji and combines that with a mnemonic + a story.
I actually like this concept alot and wanted to try out the free part of the web app, but the Kanji for eight raised my suspicion and I felt frustrated, so I thought I'd ask the community.
Here's the Kanji on the pink background and the radical in the blue box which is called "Fins" (Not all radicals use the "official" naming - I found this site, which has namings, but are the "official namings" of radicals?)
What's yout thought about this? Thank you for reading and hopefully adding to this!
Edit:
Okay, so the site tells you that obviously it's not the same radical. Apparently "close" is good enough.
I'll keep practicing and see where it will lead me. I hope that there won't be too many modifications on radicals.
I'm thinking about creating a new radical for each of those modified parts but that would probably lead to a big mess and way more radicals...
I've been "studying" radicals on WaniKani for the last few days and have reached a point where I can practice my first Kanji.
Now I'm being told that the Kanji for eight consists of one radical, but in my opinion the Kanji and Radical don't look the same at all. (except for the left part of the Kanji and Radical. I mean, you could swap the right side of the Radical 180° on the vertical axis, but the top part would still be missing, except if you bent the swapped right side and elongated it - but what's the sense of using radicals to identify Kanji then? "The right side" of the Kanji looks like as a seperate radical to me)
Wani Kani has their own Radical:Name mapping and make you memorize Kanji by learning the Radicals that go inside Kanji and combines that with a mnemonic + a story.
I actually like this concept alot and wanted to try out the free part of the web app, but the Kanji for eight raised my suspicion and I felt frustrated, so I thought I'd ask the community.
Here's the Kanji on the pink background and the radical in the blue box which is called "Fins" (Not all radicals use the "official" naming - I found this site, which has namings, but are the "official namings" of radicals?)
What's yout thought about this? Thank you for reading and hopefully adding to this!
Edit:
Okay, so the site tells you that obviously it's not the same radical. Apparently "close" is good enough.
I'll keep practicing and see where it will lead me. I hope that there won't be too many modifications on radicals.
I'm thinking about creating a new radical for each of those modified parts but that would probably lead to a big mess and way more radicals...
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