So I've mastered hiragana and am moving on to katakana but I'm still intimidated by the kanji. How… - Feed Post by shua
So I've mastered hiragana and am moving on to katakana but I'm still intimidated by the kanji. How am I supposed to find out the kanji of something while I'm reading if I've never seen it before and don't know how to type it? How will I look it up?
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You can use apps which have OCR function or those which recognize hand-drawn characters- like google translate or jocr offline, etc....
Well you can do it by radical (ie. by looking up more complicated kanji with simpler kanji. 妨ーー＞女+方) or what I've gotten pretty good at is doing it by skip code and this website seems to explain it pretty well http://www.basic-japanese.com/Hilfsdateien/skipCode.html
I have a good sized kanji dictionary that is primarily organized by skip code so I can look up kanji fairly quickly.
Here is a better (imho) explanation of the skip code. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/SKIP.html
Anyway, you can always search them by radicals + stroke count, which is fairly fast. Once you search a kanji, always try to learn both readings.
