几 — the “table” radical

Radical #16 2 strokes

The table radical. 4 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 几 radical (4)

処dispose, manage 凡commonplace, ordinary 凱victory song 凪lull, calm

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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.