Fleewithme [none/use name]

Kanji refers to all Chinese characters.

That’s where you’re wrong, Bucko.

I typed that without thinking about it at all.

There’s your problem, right there.

Kanji are Japanese characters. They are fundamentally different from Chinese characters. Calling Chinese characters “kanji” is wrong.

There are far fewer Japanese characters in the 2,136 in the jōyō kanji. That’s all? You need 5,000 Chinese characters (called hanzi) to read a newspaper. Moreover Japanese never went through the simplification process of 1965 like Chinese did. The current list of standard Chinese characters contains 8,105 hanzi. Never call hanzi “kanji” again.

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This is not Japanese. It’s Chinese. Two completely different languages.

Radicals are an obsolete concept. They belong in the garbage can. Since we don’t use paper dictionaries to look up characters any more, the entire idea of “radical” is deprecated.

Learning handwriting is obsolete. A ton of work for little gain. Everyone uses phone or computer input methods. Hell, I don’t even handwrite in English any more.