I've searched and found a few topics with others asking about this but no one seemed to know of a tool to search for a Kanji using Heisig's keywords for the primitives that make up the Kanji at the time.

So, does anyone know of a tool where I can enter for instance "finger tongue" and get "括 Fasten" as the result. I don't necessarily need it to be able to search by "mouth thousand" just the major primitives in the Kanji.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I know of just a site that does that perfectly, although I've forgotten! I used to use it all the time on my first time through RTK..I'll try and find it for you.

EDIT: I was thinking of http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/ this, guess it's only by radicals not heisig Primitives, sorry

If you use Anki to review the kanji (instead of this website) you can use the browse deck functionality to search by primitive. Just search for the primitives, and it will list all the cards with those words in it. Thats usually the first thing I do if I encounter a kanji I can't read. I search for it in my kanji deck, then copy and paste it into a dictionary.

blackmacros Wrote:If you use Anki to review the kanji (instead of this website) you can use the browse deck functionality to search by primitive. Just search for the primitives, and it will list all the cards with those words in it. Thats usually the first thing I do if I encounter a kanji I can't read. I search for it in my kanji deck, then copy and paste it into a dictionary.

I use this website to review but I also have an anki deck which I use to cram failed cards. The deck I have is the shared heisig deck and I haven't been able to find a way to search by primitive. Does your deck have a field with the primitive keywords to filter by? If so, could you give a link to the deck please, thanks.

edit:Remember that I want to search by the keywords of the primitives that make up the Kanji btw.

meolox Wrote:I know of just a site that does that perfectly, although I've forgotten! I used to use it all the time on my first time through RTK..I'll try and find it for you.

EDIT: I was thinking of http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/ this, guess it's only by radicals not heisig Primitives, sorry

no problem, thanks for trying.

edit: That's a pretty handy site though. I was using a handwriting recognition tool to search for kanji that I couldn't copy and paste before. http://chasen.org/~taku/software/ajax/hwr/

edit: It even lists the Heisig frame number nice. thanks

[Katsuo]

I built that facility into my own database. It's often the quickest look-up method and therefore very handy.

But that database is in AppleWorks, and therefore not of use to most people.

However, I have put some of the relevant data into the final column of this spreadsheet in case anyone finds it useful. To do multi-primitive look-up (such as "finger" + "tongue") that column would need to be duplicated.

Note that (1) the data is intended to be helpful rather than comprehensive; (2) It covers only the 3007 kanji in RTK.

I use this quite a lot

http://zkanji.extra.hu/

Katsuo Wrote:I built that facility into my own database. It's often the quickest look-up method and therefore very handy.

But that database is in AppleWorks, and therefore not of use to most people.

However, I have put some of the relevant data into the final column of this spreadsheet in case anyone finds it useful. To do multi-primitive look-up (such as "finger" + "tongue") that column would need to be duplicated.

Note that (1) the data is intended to be helpful rather than comprehensive; (2) It covers only the 3007 kanji in RTK.

Thanks, that works great and the spreadhseet has so much additional info. You can also find the keywords by searching with Regular Expressions if you use your own spreadsheet app. For example "tongue.*finger|finger.*tongue".

Thanks again.