Radicals › #196 鳥
鳥
鳥 — the “bird” radical
the 鳥 radical (long-tailed birds) 9 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 鳥 radical (9)
鳥bird, chicken鳴chirp, cry鶴crane, stork鳩pigeon, dove鷹hawk鵬phoenix鶏chicken鴻large bird, wild goose鳳male mythical 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.