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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (October 17, 2025)

  • October 17, 2025

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4 comments

  1. Okay dumb question incoming – how do I mark a story as completed in the Satori Reader app? I just started using it and can’t figure out how to change “started” to completed.

  2. So im gonna say it upfront, is there a way to study while playing an MMO? At least for when im doing monotonous activities where I would rather listen to a video essay, maybe there’s something that can be used to study on the side?

  3. Is there a way to search kanji by components? My question is a little bit more nuanced than searching by radicals.

    Here’s the thing: I’m looking at 種 in the word 種類, and my intuition as a learner is that the right side (重) is a phonetic component. I want to confirm or debunk this intuition by looking at many other kanjis that have 重 as a component and see how many have an onyomi similar to しゅ, しゅう, じゅう or ちゅう.

    The problem is I don’t know what to look for. Sure, I can go on jisho.org and search by radicals ノ and 里 which make up the component I’m looking for, but the list is incomplete, I’m sure of it because for some reason 働く isn’t there. So can I search something on Google in Japanese that will give me a complete list of all kanji that have certain component that might not necessarily be a radical?

  4. Is it recommended to use both an Anki deck where you recall definitions from seeing words in Kanji as well as recalling pronunciation from seeing the English word, or is the former enough?

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