マイコーさん, I just had an idea (hope noone had this before me lol) ;D
Look at this page,probably you know it already ---> http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/
Is the page of jisho.org wich allows you to searching that online dictionary for kanji by selecting the radicals that compose it...so I was thinking about a quiz wich ask you a kanji by giving it's english definition and 10 random radicals,and you have to pick out of those 10 the radicals wich build the kanji that's beign quizzed :)
That should probably help people in recalling the kanji just by thinking to the more simple radicals,thing that I am actually not able to do...I can recognize them as a whole when I see them,but if you ask me to write one from memory,I can't ;D (but that's probably because I don't training in handwriting,so my muscle memory knows nothing) :-[
Not sure how easy this would be for the site to implement, but if you have a DS, one of the later Kanji Kentei "games" include this in there. There's no definition, but they give you radicals, and you need to draw the kanji that includes all of them.
Pet peeve time: Each kanji has many parts/components/primitives (whatever you want to call them), but only one of them is [b]the[/b] radical.
Okay, rant over. :)
Right, but they can still - and do - give you multiple radicals, and you have to choose the kanji that is comprised of all of them (although obviously only one is THE radical, it doesn't take away from the challenge of the game).
I can tell you that most of my time for the rest of the year (once renshuu 3.0 is up and running) is building out the grammar studies. We've got over 5,000 questions that are about halfway through the priming process to be used in the site, and we feel this will be much more valuable at this point than expanding the kanji offerings.
You missed my point---I was just being pedantic about definitions. There is only one radical per kanji. No matter how many components make up the character, only one of them is the radical. The others are just components. Just like how there are lots of people on a boat, but only one of them is the captain.
I understood. My point is that the radicals are all radicals, whether or not they are the radical of the kanji you have to draw that uses all the... radicals...
Yeah, I'm done. I enjoy that mini-game, anyhow, and if the OP is interested, I can bother looking up the game with this particular mini-game in it for the DS. Won't be easy to get if they're outside of Japan... or at least not for cheap, but... still.
