I just stumbled across this tool and it is immensely helpful for those of all who have already invested in memorizing Wanikani’s peculiar names for all the radicals (or RTK’s if you use that). Rather than scrolling through a set of radicals sorted by stroke count like on Jisho, you just type in the names of the radicals and it’ll bring up all matching kanji in its database.
[https://sschmidtu.github.io/mr-kanji-search-wtk/](https://sschmidtu.github.io/mr-kanji-search-wtk/)
For example in Attack on Titan vol 1 I saw this word: 人類
Recognized the “rice” and “geoduck” radicals in the second kanji, typed into WTK-Search: rice geoduck
It immediately pops up a single match, “類 type”, I click on it and I’m taken straight to the jisho search for that kanji. Then I just type jin = 人 in front of it and I have my word: mankind, humanity.
This tool immensely speeds up my identification of new kanji in written paper materials and characters baked into images and videos and games (which can’t be copy-pasted). Especially when there are no furigana. Highly recommended!
Edit: WaniKani community thread on this site over here for more info and feedback: [https://community.wanikani.com/t/web-multi-radical-kanji-search-search-3100-kanji-by-wk-radicals/46781/25](https://community.wanikani.com/t/web-multi-radical-kanji-search-search-3100-kanji-by-wk-radicals/46781/25)
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Author of the website here – thanks for sharing! Let me add that the site is free and open source. I use it myself for identifying kanji in video games and manga, really any media where you can’t just copy paste the kanji (also in anime backgrounds). That’s why I built it! Happy if it’s useful to others.
Of course, you can use optical character recognition (OCR, e.g. google), and there are tools for some games, especially visual novels, to extract the text, and they’re great when they work. But often they don’t work well, or they’re very tedious to use. Drawing a character takes a lot of time, and isn’t always recognized. Typing is a lot faster for me.
I’m always open to any improvements suggested by others, feel free to tell me here!
By the way, I’m constantly adding new kanji. Even though at 3100 kanji it’s now extremely rare for me to find a new kanji that’s not in the search yet in a video game or so, it’s always good to have more.
For more info, check out the website and the github page (click on *wtk-search* in the footer).
Lastly, I also made a website that inserts frequencies into your Anki cards. You’ll find it by searching for “Anki Frequency Inserter”. (not sure if I can post links) – I use it to learn the more common words first.
Extremely useful, I often wished jisho let me do this kind of thing
Yoooo, this right here might be life changing for a beginner like me!!! おすすめをありがとう！
This is absolutely so helpful! Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Oh, this looks nice. Just a few questions as someone who doesn’t know much about these things,
-where can I find a list of all radical names?
-Is there much of a chance of this becoming an offline app, such as for mobile?
-Probably a lot harder as it would need some sort of account system, but I’d like to be able to rename radicals to things that are easy to remember
I think using google lens to scan the kanji/words is easier.
This is amazing! I also hate using the translator camera, it’s SO time consuming that I lost my concentration every time I try to use it.