干 — the “dry” radical

Radical #51 3 strokes

a shield; “dry” 5 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 干 radical (5)

年year, counter for years 平even, flat 幹tree trunk, main part 幸happiness, blessing 干dry, parch

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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.