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麻 — the “hemp” radical

Radical #200 11 strokes

The hemp radical. 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 麻 radical (2)

hemp, flax麿I, you
← 麥 wheat黃 yellow →

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.