丿

丿 — the “slash” radical

Radical #4 1 strokes

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

Kanji using the 丿 radical (5)

乗ride, power 久long time, old story 之of, this 乏destitution, scarce 乃from, possessive particle

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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.