Not only do most Kanji rote-learning resources not take into account aspects such as compound words, but also its just the wrong way to learn Japanese full stop.
No language learning works well if you are continuously translating it back into your native tongue. You need to learn to think in the language you are learning, that is the only way you are going to gain any sort of fluency. Just knowing that X translates to Y is not going to help you, even if you memorise the whole dictionary.
You might get away with translating back into your native tongue with a Western language, but you won't with Japanese.
With Japanese there's no escaping learning the grammar and other aspects. It's just your choice if your want to do it the hard way (textbook theory) or the harder way (immersion via graded readers, conversations with patient natives, or anything else similar).
All the time and effort people put into rote-learning Japanese Kanji should really be expended learning Japanese in a more holistic way.
Otherwise you might as well just buy one of those books with set-phrases such as "where's the toilet".