歹 — the “death” radical

Radical #78 4 strokes

bad, a bare bone 5 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 歹 radical (5)

死death, die 残remainder, leftover 殊particularly, especially 殖augment, increase 殉martyrdom, follow by resigning

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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.