Radicals › #142 虫
虫
虫 — the “insect” radical
bugs, snakes, small creatures 9 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 虫 radical (9)
融dissolve, melt虫insect, bug蛇snake, serpent蝶butterfly蛍lightning-bug, firefly虹rainbow蚊mosquito蚕silkworm蛮barbarian
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.