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Radicals › #185 首

首 — the “head” radical

Radical #185 9 strokes

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

Kanji using the 首 radical (1)

neck, counter for songs and poems
← 食 eat香 fragrance →

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.