In Japanese Windows 2000 or XP there's a utility to lookup kanji characters by drawing them with your mouse, but if you can't draw them well enough you're screwed.
This site will let you lookup characters by choosing radicals. I just found it and it saved me the embarrassment of having to ask a coworker to read for me. (I hate doing that. It's a man thing, like refusing to ask for directions.)
http://www.frotz.net/nihongo/kanji.cgi
10 responses so far ↓
1 Timo
// Feb 8, 2006 at 12:52 pm
先生ありがとうございました！
2 James
// Feb 8, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Have you tried the WWWJDIC kanji lookup tools? (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html) I find the Multiradical one works for me about 80% of the time, then use "Find Kanji in the Database" for those pernicious little characters that don't like having their radicals picked apart.
3 Tokyo Dan
// Feb 8, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Hey Rich,
The next WHIT show will be released tomorow night. As I promised, I's Cube will be on it.
Regards.
Dan
4 Maciej
// Feb 10, 2006 at 10:26 pm
You should try to download rikaichan. This saves me a lot of time. By the way do you know any japanese web sites with free books that you can read online?
5 Timo
// Feb 11, 2006 at 4:36 am
理解ちゃんはすごいね。Thanks for the heads up about Rikaichan… it's a big help.
6 Timo
// Feb 12, 2006 at 1:16 am
I hope Rich hasn't become so narcoleptic that he slept the whole week. :0
7 Jen
// Feb 13, 2006 at 9:33 am
If you ever have occassion to use a Mac, I like this program a lot:
http://www.jedict.com/
8 wei-yen
// Jun 8, 2006 at 2:53 pm
how can you look up tjhe japanese characters in windows? is it in the ime? i would be curious to know.
9 kanji symbol
// Oct 27, 2006 at 1:05 am
kanji-symbol image
10 Larry Sherman
// Jan 4, 2009 at 8:01 am
What a great site. I'm xfer'ng vinyl that I brought home in 1960 to CD's and want to create CD labels. Spent at least three hours yesterday trying to find one kanji by stroke count. Found it in less than 5 minutes on this site. どうも ありがとう