厂 — the “cliff” radical

Radical #27 2 strokes

a cliff overhang 5 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 厂 radical (5)

原meadow, original 厳stern, strictness 厚thick, heavy 厘rin, 1/10 sen 厄unlucky, misfortune

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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.