Hi, does anyone have any recommendations on how to go about learning to read seal script. Albeit it is rarely used I would like to be able to have some idea on how to make an educated guess about a character when I encounter it. Could someone share any resources on the internet as I have been looking for such or perhaps charts with common characters and their seal script counterparts? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
I am also posting this in r/Chinese but would like to reach for advice to people in this community as well as I belive the sunset of people who are in both subs are not as many and I would like to see if any learners of Japanese have decided to learn how to read seal script.
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I don’t know any ‘easy’ or ‘clever’ way. What I did was just mindless drilling through all the 540 [說文解字 radicals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shuowen_Jiezi_radicals) via SRS (Anki) and at this point I can easily guess most of seal script kanjis at first sight.