Radicals › #163 邑
邑
邑 — the “city” radical
the right-side 阝 — towns, places 14 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 邑 radical (14)
部section, bureau都metropolis, capital郎son, counter for sons邦home country, country邸residence, mansion郵mail, stagecoach stop郡county, district郷home town, village郊outskirts, suburbs邪wicked, injustice那what?郭enclosure, quarters郁cultural progress, perfume邑village, rural community
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.