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Radicals › #50 巾

巾 — the “cloth” radical

Radical #50 3 strokes

turban, fabric — left-side in cloth kanji 16 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 巾 radical (16)

market, cityusual, ordinaryseat, mathomecoming, arrive atexpert, teacherhanging scroll, widthsash, beltcurtain, buntinglinen, clothhope, begsovereign, the emperornotebook, account bookcap, headgearcash, bad habitsailcommander, leading troops
← 己 self干 dry →

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.