Re: The name of a radical

Travers Naran wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>> Electronic handheld kanwa dictionaries beat the hell out of paper.
>
> So is that silicon beats paper? But silicon is the main constituent
> of most rocks, and we all know paper beats rock. So you are,
> respectfully, wrong. ;-)
>
> And what kanwa hand-held are you using? I just have a WORDTANK which
> is better than average for a E-J dictionary, has something to be
> desired as a J-E and the kanji functionality is pretty weak compared
> to my paper kanji dictionaries.

I use a Seiko SR950. It has waei, eiwa, kokugo and kanwa dictionaries. The
great thing about the kanwa dictionary is that, in addition to the usual
total strokes and radical look up methods, there is a line where you can
just start typing in pieces of the kanji intuitively. An example here will
help:

Let's say you are looking up 撹. Traditionally you would look up the 手
radical or you would count the total strokes or whatever. With the
electronic dictionary, you just type て & おぼえる, because those are the
pieces that make it up, and it instantly narrows you down to one kanji. Or
here's a better example: 鼕. Why even begin thinking about what the radical
is or going to the trouble of counting strokes when you can just flip to
your kanwa jiten and type まめ & ささえる (instantly pulls up 鼓, 瞽, and
the target 鼕) or even just type ささえる & ふゆ which brings up only your
target kanji.

The other great thing about the electronic version is that once you have
found the kanji you can push a jump button which will instantaneously pull
up all of the heard words in Koujien that use that kanji.

Jeff

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