白 — the “white” radical

Radical #106 5 strokes

The white radical. 6 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 白 radical (6)

百hundred 白white 皇emperor 皆all, everything 皐swamp, shore 皓white, clear

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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.