Kanji Deconstructed

Access

https://www.fluidencodings.com/projects/kanji-deconstructed/

Timeline

December 2016

Description

Learning Japanese characters, or kanji, can be daunting for any non-native speaker of the language. Kanji can be structurally complex by many different measures, only one of which is the number of strokes it contains. Another measure is the number of individual components, or radicals, that make up a single character. In this visualization, kanji are mapped against one another based on these structural features, illustrating emergent patterns of increasing kanji complexity through the Japanese education system.