Learn the most frequent ones. There are only 50 common/very frequent ones and half of them are more or less obvious pictographs. The other half is as easy as hiragana.
I really like Wanikani. They do radicals, kanji and vocab using the kanji. They introduce the radicals for a kanji, then the kanji itself, then vocab uses of it which all help build on each other.
It lets you practice drawing these and can create flashcards for them but I know there’s a pay wall for unlimited flashcards.
1. Radicals are just a formality. Kanji can be broken into parts, but there is really no such thing as a fixed set of radicals with names that make up all the kanji. Radicals are things people have invented to help categorize kanji which formed naturally. 2. Every source gives different names for the radicals. There are some common names for the 214 official radicals used to look characters up in dictionaries, but with the decline of the paper dictionary, these don’t have much use. 3. Radicals do not tell you the etymology of a character. Etymology is related to the sound components and idea components of characters, and even then, not every character has a known etymology, and not every etymological theory is necessarily correct. 4. You don’t need to learn how to write kanji unless you intend on writing often, or if you feel it helps you remember them.
What you should do:
Just study Japanese like any other language by learning words. Learn how its verbs conjugate. Learn how particles work. And remember the most common ways to write each word, because the Japanese writing system allows you to write the same word in different ways. Look up kanji as you go and use your vocabulary to reinforce them. Kanji are useless if you do not learn words. When reading, you read words, not kanji. The only time you truly “read kanji” is if you see a word that you can’t identify, and try to guess its meaning or pronunciation based on how it is written.
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Learn the most frequent ones. There are only 50 common/very frequent ones and half of them are more or less obvious pictographs. The other half is as easy as hiragana.
I really like Wanikani. They do radicals, kanji and vocab using the kanji. They introduce the radicals for a kanji, then the kanji itself, then vocab uses of it which all help build on each other.
You could use Anki + [BritVSJapan’s RTK Primitive Deck](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1475370591).
But that being said, there’s a reason there’s few resources on it – it’s unnecessary. You don’t need to learn them.
Wanikani!
[https://www.kanshudo.com/component_details/standard_radicals](https://www.kanshudo.com/component_details/standard_radicals)
It lets you practice drawing these and can create flashcards for them but I know there’s a pay wall for unlimited flashcards.
1. Radicals are just a formality. Kanji can be broken into parts, but there is really no such thing as a fixed set of radicals with names that make up all the kanji. Radicals are things people have invented to help categorize kanji which formed naturally.
2. Every source gives different names for the radicals. There are some common names for the 214 official radicals used to look characters up in dictionaries, but with the decline of the paper dictionary, these don’t have much use.
3. Radicals do not tell you the etymology of a character. Etymology is related to the sound components and idea components of characters, and even then, not every character has a known etymology, and not every etymological theory is necessarily correct.
4. You don’t need to learn how to write kanji unless you intend on writing often, or if you feel it helps you remember them.
What you should do:
Just study Japanese like any other language by learning words. Learn how its verbs conjugate. Learn how particles work. And remember the most common ways to write each word, because the Japanese writing system allows you to write the same word in different ways. Look up kanji as you go and use your vocabulary to reinforce them. Kanji are useless if you do not learn words. When reading, you read words, not kanji. The only time you truly “read kanji” is if you see a word that you can’t identify, and try to guess its meaning or pronunciation based on how it is written.
Kanji Study (app name)