Is there a list of components all the kanjis are made of?


I started to make a list of all the "components" (I don't know how to call
them) all the joyo kanjis are made of, for me to be easier to memorize all the
kanjis (I memorize them by remembering the components the kanjis are made of).
At first I thought this list could match the radicals list, but it isn't the
case. I was wondering if that list already exists and it has a name, since
mine (although it isn't cleaned up) it has over 400 "components", and it isn't
sorted in any readable way, so I could improve mine.




James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" takes the approach of diving the joyo
kanji up into all of its "pieces" so you can take a look at that.




Unfortunately, this is a bit of a complicated situation, as there are a few
closely related ideas:

  1. Any piece of a kanji you might recognize as appearing in multiple kanji.
  2. Any piece of a kanji that either is on the official list of radicals from the Kangxi dictionary, or on a closely related list (such as a slightly edited version of that list for another dictionary).
  3. The particular piece of a kanji that is used to index it in the Kangxi dictionary (or similar).

1. and 2. are both commonly called "(kanji) components".  
2. and 3. are both commonly called "(kanji) radicals".  
And 3. alone is called "the main radical".

Lists of things like 2. can be found in many dictionaries (see [jisho.org's
radical search](http://jisho.org/#radical) , for example) or other references
like the links in
[bcloutier](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/16049/bcloutier)'s
[answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/37054/2894).

But a bigger list of components in sense #1 is more rare. **A list of 407 (or
so) components can be found
at[Kanshūdō](https://www.kanshudo.com/search?cb=y).**

