Project: AlphaKanji

I'm interested in learning Japanese. I've been engaged in that for years - on and off. One of the reasons it has taken so long is that there hasn't been a reliable and simple way to look kanji up in a dictionary.

So I developed my own system.

417m 資 assets

634c 之 of/building block

H33f 弐 II (two)

o63g 呉 give

373g 吾 I

463j 娯 recreation

See Jack Halpern (who devised SKIP (and here, and here) for identifying kanji) and explore this website jimbreen (at) gmail dot com
Some other systems are mentioned here.

As for Chinese
Jim Breem told me about the four corner method, which has similarities
Useful Japanese kanji site
Wiktionary frequency list

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