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"Thanksgiving" Primitive

#1
It's between frame 357/358, I can't find this primitive in the WWWJDIC kanji primitive search, why is that? Also when I use my computers IME pad to write the primitive it gives me nothing similar :S
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#2
I don't know about this specific one but, not all Heisig 'primitives' are official primitives/radicals. That might explain it. (But I'm not sure~)
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#3
That's because it's a primitive (which is a term defined by Heisig), rather than a radical/部首 (which is an official traditional component of a character). The WWWJDIC search is based on radicals, although they have tinkered with the list a bit to make the components more intuitive.

You can search for the thanksgiving primitive by combining the 立 and 戈 radicals.
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#4
shaydwyrm: You're thinking of kazoo. Thanksgiving uses 土 and 戈

I personally prefer the jisho.org radical search. It has a nice AJAX interface.
http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/
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#5
haha thanks guys, yeah I guess I thought primitives and radicals were the same thing :/
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#6
zdude255 Wrote:shaydwyrm: You're thinking of kazoo. Thanksgiving uses 土 and 戈
Gah, I even wrote down the right kanji, then cut-and-pasted the wrong one >.<
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