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1 month ago I try to do similar and learn radicals or component Kanji. The two workarounds that are both quite tedious:
- When learning/reviewing the Kanji, and realizing there are some components I don't know, I add some vocabulary with it to a temporary vocab-list. After the review I search the word and look into the Kanji, copy the radical and add it to my "random radicals" list.
- More recently, before learning new kanji, I go through them and look at the details, then copy any radicals and add them to my list.
Ultimately lots of back and forth between submenus.
One general issue to keep in mind is that there are repeats and, if I recall correctly, overlaps of radicals/components within certain Kanjis, so any UI-element might need to display a lot of information. Also, not all component Kanjis/Radicals have information within the app available.
What an implementation could look like:
- As you suggested, allow viewing the Kanji's information while in a review. The main issue I see is it would be confusing if it looked like the normal information screen.
- Similar to your suggestion, like the variants, have a toggleable view of all component Kanjis. Using just the image would make this rather simple, I think any more and there needs to be a bigger discussion on GUI-Design to not overload the user.
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While in a Kanji's info add the option to add a component Kanji or the Kanji itself to a Kanji list. More for my use case, but this would at least mean no back-and-forth between submenus.
The owner of this project would know better how easy or difficult such changes are to implement, but I would be willing to try to add this functionality after I have finished my current issue.
I have a much easier time remembering Kanji characters when I learn the radicals in them. However, if I forget a radical, I can't seem to view the radicals when reviewing Kanji. The answer page shows the pronunciation and vocab but there doesn't seem to be any way to view the radicals. I'd have to leave the review, scroll through Kanji lists until I find it, open it to look at it, then go back to the review. It is so hard I don't even bother, and I haven't been using the app as much.
Once the answer is shown, I wish I could view all the info on a Kanji (JLPT level and newspaper frequency would be nice too) and be able to copy it to the clipboard too. I wouldn't mind if I needed to tap a button to view more info. Is this something you think may be worth adding? Thanks for making the app.