Re: Unidentifiable kanji
The kanji exists, and it's clearly legible, so there shouldn't be any problem looking it up by standard methods (of which there are a few). Well, as far as this particular one goes, I pretty much remember it. The dictionaries may say it's rare, but I see it in manga all the time. Incidentally, if you know that the common kanji for 国 is a simplified form of 國, so from that you can deduce that 掴 = 摑.
For unknown/forgotten kanji, my standard algorithm is as follows:
1. If it's a verb with okurigana, try to guess what it might be, type it in, see if the kanji comes up. For a jukugo, try to guess what the on reading is -- if I recognize the radical that might give it its sound, type it in, see if the kanji comes up. For longer jukugo (3 or more kanji) where I recognize all but one kanji, type them in in google and see if the full word comes up.
2. If the above failed, sigh.
3. If the kanji is legible, draw it in IME pad.
4. If the kanji isn't fully legible, sigh again.
5. If some radicals are legible, go to
http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/ mark the radicals you see, maybe something will come up
6. If nothing came up, sigh.
7. Open up skype, see if any Japanese friends are online. Show them the screenshot.
8. If they don't recognize it or are asleep, post the screenshot on MH and hope for the best
I think you skipped directly to step 8.
Edit: For step 7, you don't need Japanese specifically, if you just need a kanji in text form you can ask your Chinese friends just as easily. But again, you don't need to bug anyone if the kanji is legible. If you can see every one of its radicals, there are many ways of looking it up.
