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Radicals › #47 巛

巛 — the “river” radical

Radical #47 3 strokesalso written 巛

flowing water (川) 4 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 巛 radical (4)

stream, riverstate, provincepatrol, go aroundnest, rookery
← 山 mountain工 work →

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.