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戈 — the “halberd” radical

Radical #62 4 strokes

a long-handled weapon 5 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 戈 radical (5)

war, battleturn into, becomeego, Icommandmentfrolic, play
← 心 heart戶 door →

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.