[dpapathanasiou]

I've heard of Heisig, but only recently.

My method for learning kanji was to count the strokes (it's relatively simple to figure the stroke count for any character: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/strokeorder.htm) then use that number to look them up in a dictionary.

But everything I looked up was in the context of a sentence, while trying to read a report at work, e.g.