Just a heads-up that we’ve gone through replacing some of the images we used to represent radicals with their equivalent unicode characters. This is because characters load more quickly than images, and look more consistent with other radicals. Unlike images, you can also copy and paste them if ever you want to. Plus, it’s just generally considered good practice to use unicode characters whenever possible.
The following radicals now have unicode characters rather than images:
- 𠂉 — Gun
- 丨 — Stick
- 丆 — Leaf
- 𠆢 — Hat
- ⺌ — Triceratops
- 丷 — Horns
- 业 — Spikes
- 龸 — Viking
- 𠃌 — Cape
- ⺤ — Cleat
- 龹 — Gladiator
- 𡗗 — Spring
- 㑒 — Squid
- 𦰩 — Chinese
- 㠯 — Bear
- 龷 — Blackjack
- 𠫓 — Trash
- 㦮 — Bar
- 𭕄 — Grass
- 袁 — Zombie
- 𠦝 — Morning
- 丞 — Coral
- 巩 — Saw
Most of these look identical or almost identical. The only exception is “Spikes”, which now looks more like it does in kanji:
Also note that “Saw” has a Japanese and Chinese form. In the list above, it’s showing up in the Japanese form 巩, but on WaniKani it should display in the Chinese form, as below, because that’s much closer to how the radical actually appears in kanji:
We weren’t able to replace all images simply because there aren’t unicode characters that resemble certain radicals closely enough.
