文 — the “script” radical

Radical #67 4 strokes

writing, pattern 4 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 文 radical (4)

文sentence, literature 斎purification, Buddhist food 斉adjusted, alike 斐beautiful, patterned

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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.