士 — the “scholar” radical

Radical #33 3 strokes

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

Kanji using the 士 radical (5)

売sell 声voice 士gentleman, scholar 壮robust, manhood 壱one (in documents)

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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.