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Radicals › #95 玄

玄 — the “dark” radical

Radical #95 5 strokes

profound, mysterious 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 玄 radical (2)

ratio, ratemysterious, occultness
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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.