Radicals › #138 艮
艮
艮 — the “stopping” radical
a fixed gaze/mountain 1 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 艮 radical (1)
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.