buonaparte wrote:

zigmonty wrote:

SomeCallMeChris wrote:

There are not that many bushu, they can be rote memorized easily enough. You already know most of them if you've completed RTK1 and just need to put a name to them.

And some of them are hilarious, like ワ冠, ウ冠, etc.

What's hilarious about katakana?

Well, as katakana is unique to Japanese, it's clearly not the original chinese name for the radical, is it? It has also completely dropped any meaning that may have been associated in favour of "it looks like this shape". Ok, so maybe it's not hilarious, but i do wonder why those names are used.