耳 — the “ear” radical

Radical #128 6 strokes

hearing — left-side radical 7 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 耳 radical (7)

職post, employment 聞hear, ask 聴listen, headstrong 聖holy, saint 耳ear 聡wise, fast learner 耶question mark

← 耒 plow 聿 brush →

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.