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麥 — the “wheat” radical

Radical #199 11 strokes

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

Kanji using the 麥 radical (1)

barley, wheat
← 鹿 deer麻 hemp →

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.