羊 — the “sheep” radical

Radical #123 6 strokes

also “goat” 4 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 羊 radical (4)

義righteousness, justice 美beauty, beautiful 群flock, group 羊sheep

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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.