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Radicals › #100 生

生 — the “life” radical

Radical #100 5 strokes

birth, growth 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 生 radical (2)

life, genuineproducts, bear
← 甘 sweet用 use →

Radicals (部首, bushu) are the shared building blocks of kanji, used to sort them in every dictionary. Learn the common ones and new kanji stop looking random.