魚 — the “fish” radical

Radical #195 11 strokes

the 魚 radical 6 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 魚 radical (6)

鮮fresh, vivid 魚fish 鯨whale 鮎freshwater trout, smelt 鯉carp 鯛sea bream, red snapper

← 鬼 ghost 鳥 bird →

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.