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Radicals › #14 冖

冖 — the “cover” radical

Radical #14 2 strokes

a wide cover 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 冖 radical (3)

copy, be photographedcrown, bestsuperfluous, uselessness
← 冂 down box冫 ice →

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.