Nihongo

— sound hints

Most kanji are a meaning part plus a phonetic part that predicts the 音 reading: kanji containing 青 tend to read . Spot the component, guess the reading. The rule holds when the component is doing the sound job — usually the right-hand side (晴・清・精). When it's just a shape in the drawing (旅's 方), it says nothing — those are dimmed, so you learn where the trick applies. 39 of 80 here follow their family's sound (voiced variants like ハン→バン count — that shift is normal inside a family).

Radicals →
says blue — 7 of 7 follow the rule
says life — 6 of 8 follow the rule
says direction — 9 of 19 follow the rule
says craft — 9 of 20 follow the rule
says white — 8 of 26 follow the rule