厶 — the “private” radical

Radical #28 2 strokes

The private radical. 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 厶 radical (2)

参nonplussed, three (in documents)去gone, past

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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.