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黃 — the “yellow” radical

Radical #201 12 strokes

The yellow 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 黃 radical (1)

yellow
← 麻 hemp黍 millet →

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.