These are all great points and I appreciate you adding these details. I do still think a Japanese speaker would see "sen" at the end of that word and notice th

These are all great points and I appreciate you adding these details. I do still think a Japanese speaker would see "sen" at the end of that word and notice the connection to a military root word. When you say partially true about the radicals, I'm a bit surprised. Is it really the case that this is only for some words? I believed it to be true for most words; that the radicals almost always influenced a thought, usually a thought that was true at the very least when the character was introduced. The thought might be archaic and sexist (that's a good point) but that it would be understood and noted by the reader. You are saying that's not the case with most radicals, or in the rare case more often?