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鼓 — the “drum” radical

Radical #207 13 strokes

The drum 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 鼓 radical (1)

drum, beat
← 黑 black鼻 nose →

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.