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足 — the “foot” radical

Radical #157 7 strokes

the 足 radical — legs, walking 9 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 足 radical (9)

leg, footpath, routestep, trampleleap, dancetracks, marklong-distance, spurjump, dancetread, step onhop, leap up
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