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Radicals › #58 彐

彐 — the “snout” radical

Radical #58 3 strokesalso written 彐

a pig's head 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 彐 radical (2)

hit, rightcomet, broom
← 弓 bow彡 bristle →

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.