Radicals › #166 里
里
里 — the “village” radical
also a unit of distance 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 里 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.