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Looking Up Kanji by Radical, and the Faster Methods
The traditional radical-plus-stroke-count method, multi-radical search, handwriting input and optical lookup: which to use when, and what each one teaches you.
Lawrence Arya··10 min
Posts tagged Dictionaries from the Kanji Write Practice team.

The traditional radical-plus-stroke-count method, multi-radical search, handwriting input and optical lookup: which to use when, and what each one teaches you.

Stroke count is a lookup index, not a difficulty rating. What counts as one stroke, why high counts are not hard, and where the number genuinely matters.