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父 — the “father” radical

Radical #88 4 strokes

The father radical. 1 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 父 radical (1)

father
← 爪 claw爻 mix →

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.