幺 — the “tiny” radical

Radical #52 3 strokes

short threads, minute 4 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 幺 radical (4)

幼infancy, childhood 幻phantasm, vision 幾how many, how much 幽seclude, confine to a room

← 干 dry 广 dotted cliff →

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.