音 — the “sound” radical

Radical #180 9 strokes

The sound radical. 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 音 radical (3)

音sound, noise 響echo, sound 韻rhyme, elegance

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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.