二

二 — the “two” radical

Radical #7 2 strokes

The two radical. 6 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 二 radical (6)

二two 五five 井well, well crib 互mutually, reciprocally 亜Asia, rank next 亘span, range

← 亅 hook 亠 lid →

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.