I could imagine skip[0] being quite efficient.  I doubt any native speaker would use it, though.  I have used multiple radical lookup systems before, and they are not in any way efficient.  I don&#x27;t speak Chinese, but I do a fair bit of writing in Japanese and phonetic input is very, very quick (especially with context sensitive completion).<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kodansha_Kanji_Learner%27s_Dictionary" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kodansha_Kanji_Learner%27s_Dic...</a>