Radicals › #154 貝
貝
貝 — the “shell” radical
money, wealth (cowrie shells) 31 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 貝 radical (31)
資assets, resources費expense, cost質substance, quality賞prize, reward負defeat, negative財property, money買buy責blame, condemn販marketing, sell貿trade, exchange貨freight, goods賛approve, praise購subscription, buy貢tribute, support賃fare, fee貴precious, value貸lend贈presents, send賀congratulations, joy貯savings, store貫pierce, 8 1/3lbs賢intelligent, wise貧poverty, poor賠compensation, indemnify賄bribe, board貞upright, chastity賓V.I.P., guest貝shellfish賊burglar, rebel賜grant, gift賦levy, ode
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.
