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Radicals › #20 勹

勹 — the “wrap” radical

Radical #20 2 strokes

an enclosing arm 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 勹 radical (3)

wrap, pack upladle, one tenth of a gomonme, 3.75 grams
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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.