廴 — the “long stride” radical

Radical #54 3 strokes

The long stride radical. 3 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 廴 radical (3)

建build 延prolong, stretching 廷courts, imperial court

← 广 dotted cliff 廾 two hands →

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.