Multi-radical / component kanji lookup

[Rúnar Berg Baugsson Sigríðarson]

I thought you might be interested that I created a multi-radical kanji lookup (component picker) from the KanjiVG data. It is available in the kanji learning app https://shodoku.app/dictionary. To open the picker click the  部 button on the right hand side of the search bar.

It works exactly like the one on jisho.org, except the data source is different, so not all radical lookups will yield the same kanji.

The index files are available to download (similar to kradfile and radkfile):

• https://shodoku.app/data/index/kanji-radicals-v1.usv
• https://shodoku.app/data/index/radicals-kanji-v1.usv

They are simple usv files like CSV that use unicode symbol values for separators (I have my reasons to not use CSV).

The script I used to generate them are available (MIT license) on my github build-assets-components.js and the picker logic is mostly in this web worker component-picker.worker.ts

The code is kind of a mess at the moment, but I may rewrite the picker as a standalone web-component if anyone is interested in using it in their own project.

Note that shodoku.app is a kanji learning app with a handy dictionary, so my main focus is not creating a dictionary. And the reason I decided to use KanjiVG as the data source for this picker (as opposed to radkfile and kradfile) was to stay consistent with the components displayed when studying each kanji. But in doing so I created a handy way to explore the graph of kanji-component mappings (and component-variation mapping) in the KanjiVG dataset.

I hope this picker and the kanji-component explorer can become useful for you all.

[Ben Bullock]

I’ve added your project to the list.

https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html

[Ben Bullock]

I also clicked on the links of the other stuff just to check it is all working.

I removed japanga.com since that site seems to have gone.

I removed tsukigakkou.com since it seems to be a blog site which doesn't actually use KanjiVG.

Everything else is the same.

All the removed links are just commented out rather than actually deleted, so view the source of the projects page if you want to recheck anything.