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香 — the “fragrance” radical

Radical #186 10 strokes

The fragrance radical. 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 香 radical (2)

incense, smellfragrant, balmy
← 首 head馬 horse →

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.