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彳 — the “step” radical

Radical #60 3 strokes

the “going” 彳 on the left of movement kanji 19 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 彳 radical (19)

behind, backgain, getduty, warwait, depend onrestore, return toaccompany, obeyhe, thaton foot, juniorindications, signpenetrate, clearrhythm, lawhonorable, manipulatebenevolence, virtuedelicate, minutenessjourney, traveldiameter, pathgradually, slowlysubjugate, attack the rebellioussequential, follow
← 彡 bristle心 heart →

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.