Hello! My name is Cristhian and i'm a brazilian guy i have been in japan for about 9 years now but i really don't have master japanese yet but on my studies i have found some tricks
i send this to peter once !he said it was cool and ask me to post on the blog what i haven't yet
anyway
my theory is some primaries kanjis as i call them pass they reading for similars
as i think the radical is the key hint for the meaning the buhin part is the key hint for the reading ei. 中 read なか ちゅう right? now see this 仲 なか 忠 ちゅう 沖 ちゅう see? another one けん 検 険 倹 験 all read ken another てき 敵 適 滴 摘 嫡 ... one more そく 則 測 側 so! what i'm tryng to say is when looking for one kanji that you don't know don't panic but sure it doesn't work with all kanjis but if you are taking jlpt and really don't know the right one the probability of sucess is greater if you try this trick
ok this all please comment if you think is usefull or useless anyway
sorry for the bad english is my 2language try to understand see ya'll
also if you have a cell phone with dictionary function this will come handy!
保証
ただし せい しょう
if i know 保 and don't know the other i just type my options and
scroll down and find しょう 証
and if you are looking in a kanji dictionary try the reading index
bye