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Radicals › #13 冂

冂 — the “down box” radical

Radical #13 2 strokes

an open-bottomed frame 5 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 冂 radical (5)

inside, withincircle, yenagain, twicetome, counter for booksrisk, face
← 八 eight / divide冖 cover →

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.