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Radicals › #39 子

子 — the “child” radical

Radical #39 3 strokes

The child radical. 9 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 子 radical (9)

study, learningchild, sign of the ratcharacter, letterexist, supposeseasonsorphan, alonegrandchild, descendantscavity, holechief, beginning
← 女 woman宀 roof →

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.