Radicals › #38 女
女
女 — the “woman” radical
a common left-side radical 34 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 女 radical (34)
女woman, female委committee, entrust to始commence, begin好fond, pleasing姿figure, form婦lady, woman妻wife, spouse婚marriage妥gentle, peace威intimidate, dignity妙exquisite, strange娘daughter, girl嫌dislike, detest妊pregnancy妹younger sister姉elder sister妨disturb, prevent姫princess嫁marry into, bride娠with child, pregnancy姓surname如likeness, like媛beautiful woman, princess妃queen, princess娯recreation, pleasure媒mediator, go-between奴guy, slave姻matrimony, marry嬢lass, girl婿bridegroom, son-in-law嫡legitimate wife, direct descent (non-bastard)妄delusion, unnecessarily嬉glad, pleased婆old woman, grandma
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.
