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耒 — the “plow” radical

Radical #127 6 strokes

a farming tool 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 耒 radical (2)

till, plowdecrease
← 而 and耳 ear →

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.