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門 — the “gate” radical

Radical #169 8 strokes

the 門 that frames doorway kanji 10 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 門 radical (10)

interval, spaceopen, unfoldconnection, barriertower, tall buildinggate, counter for cannonsfight, warclosed, shutclique, lineagereview, inspectionleisure
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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.