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月 — the “moon” radical

Radical #74 4 strokes

moon/month; visually merges with 肉 (meat) 10 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 月 radical (10)

month, moonperiod, timemorning, dynastypossess, haveambition, full moonclothing, admitmelodious, clearcompanion, friendconjunction (astronomy), first day of monthmajestic plural, imperial we
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