己 — the “self” radical

Radical #49 3 strokes

the snake/self 5 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 己 radical (5)

巻scroll, volume 己self 巽southeast 巴comma-design 巳sign of the snake or serpent, 9-11AM

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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.