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鹿

鹿 — the “deer” radical

Radical #198 11 strokes

The deer radical. 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 鹿 radical (3)

鹿deerlovely, beautifulChinese unicorn, genius
← 鳥 bird麥 wheat →

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.