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Radicals › #56 弋

弋 — the “shoot” radical

Radical #56 3 strokes

a ceremonial dart 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 弋 radical (2)

style, ceremonyII, two
← 廾 two hands弓 bow →

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.