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臣 — the “minister” radical

Radical #131 6 strokes

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

Kanji using the 臣 radical (2)

look to, faceretainer, subject
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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.