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甘 — the “sweet” radical

Radical #99 5 strokes

The sweet radical. 2 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 甘 radical (2)

sweet, coaxtremendously, very
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