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Radicals › #8 亠

亠 — the “lid” radical

Radical #8 2 strokes

a dot over a line, like a lid on top 9 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 亠 radical (9)

capital, 10**16mingle, mixingdeceased, the latepavilion, restaurantclear, helpenjoy, receivepass through, go smoothlysign of the hog, 9-11PMalso, again
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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.