Kanji Radicals (部首)
The 214 classical radicals (部首, bushu) are the building blocks of kanji. They originated from the Kangxi Dictionary (1716) and are still used to index kanji in Japanese dictionaries. Learning the most frequent radicals dramatically accelerates kanji recognition. Why Learn Radicals Pattern recognition : Recognizing radicals in unfamiliar kanji gives you semantic and structural clues Dictionary lookup : Traditional kanji dictionaries are indexed by radical Mnemonic scaffolding : WaniKani and...