Board Thread:Wiki Business/@comment-131168-20151022163403

When there is something in Japanese written on a web page, we may not always be able to understand it clearly, but we can at least use online resources and translators to get some sort of gist. When it's part of an image or even physical product, though, it is quite a bit trickier to deal with. Hiragana and katakana are pretty easy to recognize if you've practiced with them a bit, but there are only a few dozen of those--with thousands of kanji it's much easier to have gaps in knowledge. I asked over at a kanji-studying site about the best ways to identify these kanji, and got some useful links.

These are two slightly different versions of the same tool, where you select shapes that are part of the kanji and it will narrow down the list of what characters it could possibly be. I tried this and got some results pretty quick.

There are also some things that will try to let you just sketch in what it looks like and match it, like this. However, my recreations just seem too inaccurate for that to get very useful results.

Initially I was just going to make this thread as a dumping ground for kanji images I couldn't figure out and where the information should be added at some point, but with these tools maybe I can interpret a little more than I thought. This should still be a good place to drop things we can't figure out, though 