Yeah I follow you. Pinyin helped me learn tones and reading. But now I can look at a character and find the radical. Then could the remaining strokes and look i

Yeah I follow you. Pinyin helped me learn tones and reading. But now I can look at a character and find the radical. Then could the remaining strokes and look it up in a paper dictionary. I have the books school children buy in china and yeah 7+ it’s just characters.