Radicals › #59 彡
彡
彡 — the “bristle” radical
hair, decoration, light rays 8 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 彡 radical (8)
形shape, form影shadow, silhouette彦lad, boy (ancient)彩coloring, paint彰patent, clear彫carve, engrave彬refined, gentle彪spotted, mottled
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.
