does anyone out there know how to type just a radical of a kanji? i asked a few of my japanese friends, but no one seems to know. thanks!

I'm not aware of an easy way. If your input method lets you input Unicode by codepoints directly, you could try referring to the radical extensions for the code values. One caution: many fonts that have the full characters don't contain the radicals.

Yes, most of the radicals that aren't full kanji don't exist in Japanese font sets and there's no simple way to input them. Most Chinese font sets have the radicals, though.

You can copy and paste them from the MultiRadical kanji lookup on WWWJDIC like this

亠冂

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

thanks all. i tried to cut/past, but just didn't seem to work for me. anyways, no worries. i was just trying to put in the radical names (?????etc.) in anki. instead i decided to just put in example kanji. thanks again.

See http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/radicalnames.html

You can now download a free, open-source font with full support for all Japanese radicals and variants (322 characters) via https://github.com/kintopp/Kanji-alive/releases/latest (for those just looking for a list of radicals with meanings I've included a PDF and a .csv file in the font directory as well).

edit: ha! I just realized someone bumped a post from 2007 to post their font.

sannomiya Wrote:thanks all. i tried to cut/past, but just didn't seem to work for me. anyways, no worries. i was just trying to put in the radical names (?????etc.) in anki. instead i decided to just put in example kanji. thanks again.

Someone a while back scanned the radicals out of rtk 4th ed and made an anki deckout of it.

If u have google ime it might have the radicals. Try looking up its name and try to type it

I remember typing innyou いんにょう and getting the radical. I only knew that radical was called that because I was watching ame talk and they started talking about names and what kanji looks cool or lame. I actually used jus the radical in my deck for stroke order on the backside of my cards for rtk


I remembered the name of another one
さんすい or it might have bee sanzui. I think I was able to type it out on google ime. Again I only know this because some geinin said it on a tv show and I adddd it to my deck