Cheers

If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about finding something like that?

Last edited by egovkd (2012 February 24, 9:52 pm)

That's odd. It's -in- KANJIDIC but can't be found by radicals in jisho.org. It's there though once you have the character, http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%A0%9F
(of course, it doesn't have 'parts' listed - but I would have expected it to show up under its radical).

Not having a 漢和 dictionary, if I got stuck in such a position I would use an IME with handwriting recognition to input the character. (iPhone, Baidu, ATOK ... or in a desperate case, there are some websites out there that do handwriting recognition kanji lookups. Google-IME's handwriting recognition is not worth the trouble of opening, btw.)

Last edited by SomeCallMeChris (2012 February 24, 10:12 pm)

egovkd wrote:

If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about finding something like that?

In all my years of spelunking the interconnected web of networks in search of information, I have been fine tuning my information seeking abilities.

This was my thought process:
1. This is probably an old kanji that isn't used anymore. Therefore, it must have been simplified.
2. In order to find the simplified version of it, what would 巤 have turned into?
3. Google: 巤
4. Top hit: http://www.geocities.jp/iwa_kaz/kantaijiXV.htm
5. Ctrl-F "巤"
6. Find "蠟（蝋）" in the text. Now I can copy/paste the character and do whatever I want with it.

yudantaiteki wrote:

And actually because of the continuing confusion over whether non-Joyo kanji should be simplified or not, seeing 蠟燭 is not all that uncommon.  (If it were up to me they'd just stick to ロウソク but nobody asks me )

What?  Not a fan of non-Joyo kanji?

Heresy!