I am writing a book regarding learning kanji. I want your suggestions regarding what to include in it. I am planning to include about 2100 standard kanji. Do I need to include stroke order practice in it. Do I deconstruct it into component radicals and specify their meanings too?
What is innovative about this book is that I am ordering the different kanji by their radical order and not the stroke count. I have categorized the radicals into groups having common meanings. What is innovative about this approach is that these common meanings have common shapes of radicals too.
For example, see the grouping below.
**Three boxes make the looks:**
⾯face ⽿ear ⽬(⺫)eye ⾒(/见)see ⾃self ⾸head ⿐nose ⾙(/贝)shell ⾴(/页)leaf ⿍tripod ⾝body ⾂minister ⾩mound
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> Do I need to include stroke order practice in it. Do I deconstruct it into component radicals and specify their meanings too?
Maybe? If your book is supposed to teach you how to write kanji then yeah. If your book is just about reading kanji then maybe not.
Knowing at least something about writing kanji has some use even if you are just typing. You have dictionaries with components sorted by stroke order, and you have handwriting recognition which works better if you use stroke order and of course proper strokes.
But it’s probably possible to get by without this.
IMHO If you are writing a book you should be so certain of your goal with the book and its need out there at the shop and your own technical knowledge, etc. that you have no questions about how to write it. You should be sufficiently metalearnpilled to the extent of knowing what the book needs
2100? Can you explain which 37 you’ve cut and why you added ⿍?
My favourite books for learning are all grammar related books. They don’t mention stroke order.
What are your qualifications? Are you a teacher? Passed 漢検準1級 or something?
What would be different about this book compared to “Remembering the Kanji” or “The Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Course” for example?