Radicals › #112 石
石
石 — the “stone” radical
rock, mineral — left-side radical 19 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 石 radical (19)
確assurance, firm研polish, study of石stone破rend, rip硬stiff, hard砂sand礎cornerstone, foundation stone砲cannon, gun磯seashore, beach砕smash, break磨grind, polish碁Go磁magnet, porcelain碑tombstone, monument硫sulphur礁reef, sunken rock硝nitrate, saltpeter碧blue, green碩large, great
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.