Radicals › #44 尸
尸
尸 — the “corpse” radical
a bent body; often “building/body” at the top-left 14 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 尸 radical (14)
局bureau, board展unfold, expand屋roof, house層stratum, social class居reside, to be尾tail, end属belong, genus届deliver, reach尽exhaust, use up屈yield, bend履perform, complete尿urine尼nun尺shaku, Japanese foot
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.