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finding all the kanji a primitive is used within - thegeezer3 - 2007-05-19
Evening all, shame about man utd losing to chelsea but thats life i suppose. Anyway im noticing some primitives move around more than others. The primitive for head seems to like the right a lot, taskmaster usually on the right but im sure ive noticed it move to the left and as a final example craft seems to swap sides as well. What i would like to do is to simply memorize which primitives stick to their sides. The books index doesnt seem to list that (presumably because it would require a book in intself due to the combinations) and i was wondering is there a site or search function i can use to do this. Alternatively has anyone already done this and if so would you be willing to share?
finding all the kanji a primitive is used within - JimmySeal - 2007-05-19
If you have one of those handheld electronic dictionaries with kanjigen it's not too hard, or you could search by parts in JWPce.
finding all the kanji a primitive is used within - synewave - 2007-05-19
This was something a few of us were interested in before. Have a look at the Primative positioning rules thread. It has a few decent "rules" in there but it ain't complete yet!
finding all the kanji a primitive is used within - thegeezer3 - 2007-05-19
hey thanks for that, i did do a search of the forum for the keywords "primitive search" but this pos didnt show up.
finding all the kanji a primitive is used within - wrightak - 2007-05-20
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC has a very good multi radical lookup method.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1R
You can try and search for all of the kanji that contain certain primitives. The only problem is that there's too many kanji in the database and we're only really interested in a few thousand.
finding all the kanji a primitive is used within - Megaqwerty - 2007-05-20
I'm not sure about Jim Breen, having never used it, but I know that Wakan does list the Heisig index of a kanji. Ergo, you can combine that with the radical search of either Jim Breen or Wakan itself to find the kanji you want. The only real problem I see with this is when Heisig's primitives don't actually overlap with the established radicals.