老 — the “old” radical

Radical #125 6 strokesalso written 耂

the 耂 crown — age 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 老 radical (3)

者someone, person 考consider, think over 老old man, old age

← 羽 feather 而 and →

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.