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Radicals › #81 比

比 — the “compare” radical

Radical #81 4 strokes

two people side by side 1 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 比 radical (1)

compare, race
← 毋 do not毛 fur →

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.