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黍 — the “millet” radical

Radical #202 12 strokes

The millet 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 黍 radical (1)

dark, black
← 黃 yellow黑 black →

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.