Radicals › #161 辰
辰
辰 — the “morning” radical
the 5th earthly branch (dragon) 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 辰 radical (3)
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.