乙

乙 — the “second” radical

Radical #5 1 strokesalso written 乚

hook-shaped; also the 2nd of the heavenly stems 7 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 乙 radical (7)

九nine 乱riot, war 乳milk, breasts 亀tortoise, turtle 也to be (classical)乾drought, dry 乙the latter, duplicate

← 丿 slash 亅 hook →

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.