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Radicals › #189 高

高 — the “tall” radical

Radical #189 10 strokes

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

Kanji using the 高 radical (1)

tall, high
← 骨 bone髟 long hair →

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.