Radicals › #172 隹
隹
隹 — the “small bird” radical
short-tailed birds 11 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 隹 radical (11)
集gather, meet難difficult, impossible離detach, separation雄masculine, male雑miscellaneous雇employ, hire雅gracious, elegant隻vessels, counter for ships雌feminine, female隼falcon雛chick, squab
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.
