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隶 — the “slave” radical

Radical #171 8 strokes

to capture 1 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 隶 radical (1)

slave, servant
← 阜 mound隹 small bird →

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.