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Radicals › #45 屮

屮 — the “sprout” radical

Radical #45 3 strokes

a young plant 1 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 屮 radical (1)

barracks, police station
← 尸 corpse山 mountain →

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.