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鼻 — the “nose” radical

Radical #209 14 strokes

The nose 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 鼻 radical (1)

nose, snout
← 鼓 drum齒 tooth →

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.