RadicalNameEntrytype

WHAT A JAPANESE SCHOOL CALLS A RADICAL: 氵 is さんずい, 辶 is しんにょう, 艹 is くさかんむり. The names a learner hears from a teacher, which are neither the dictionary's English ("water", "walk", "grass") nor any course's mnemonics. From Kanji alive's table of the 214 Kangxi radicals and their variants (CC BY 4.0, credit in NOTICE.md), joined to RADKFILE's 253 by shape. 227 have a name; the rest are components no school lists as a radical (九, 乞, 久, 井), and a caller gets null for those, never a guess.

Keyed by the RADKFILE key, as everything about a radical is, so a stand-in is looked up as written: 汁 answers さんずい. The names are a plain import, so a page that draws a radical's name draws it with no request.

import type { RadicalNameEntry } from "@johnmorrisdotca/bushu/names";

type RadicalNameEntry = {
    readonly name: string;
    readonly romaji: string;
    readonly meaning: string;
    readonly position: string | null;
    readonly kangxi: number | null;
};

import type { RadicalNameEntry } from "@johnmorrisdotca/bushu/names";
import { radicalNameEntry } from "@johnmorrisdotca/bushu/names";

const value: RadicalNameEntry = radicalNameEntry("汁")!;
console.log(value);

{
  name: 'さんずい',
  romaji: 'sanzui',
  meaning: 'water',
  position: 'へん',
  kangxi: 85
}