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2
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one stick
drop of
liquid
two kettle lid person
Kanji Radicals Cheat Sheet
Remember, kanji isnʼt made up of individual strokes, itʼs made up of radicals. If you learn by strokes, you have to remember 5,
10, 15+ plus steps. If you learn the radicals, and put them together like building blocks, youʼll only have to remember 2, 3, or 4
steps to put together a kanji. Doesnʼt that sound a lot nicer than learning each individual stroke? To get the full picture, use this
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table open box
me / I stool
sweet
water
slide
unicorn w/
horns
man on
cliff
variety
stick rack
(selfish!)
me
slide z-hook barb
influential
person
rice
paddy hat
power enclosure
nine
broken
box
legs enter fish legs horns
knife /
sword
spoon
stairs nail
mouth ground samurai winter evening big / large
deranged
big man
big step /
stride
animal grass butcher
flag left hand mountain river river bend
twenty ceremony
alligator
skull
busted up
stick
death
double
knocked
over box
reinforced
Stairs
stuck
ninja star
reinforced
enclosure
box on itʼs
side
crooked
nail
woman /
female
constructi
on
hair
ten
upside
down box
shamanʼs
stick
volcano leaf
child
snake
skull
linger /
loiter
fancy pot
lid
hanging
towel
fish legs
stick
top of the
head
ice water
seal cliff
measurement
dry
little
pile of my
stuff
spiky stick liquid
4
5
6
grave
slide
crooked
heaven
grave
slide
ceremoni
al slide
door hand holy stool
broken
stool
sun moon tree fail stop bad
water fire fish tail claw father
demented
dog
mysteriou
s
melon
plate eye
20 upside
down
boxes
five
attentive
mother
stabbed
finger
10,000
eggs
heavenly
slide
sideways
eye
bamboo rice small pie
my grave
broken
sun
wide eye
snake
sugary life
stone
fang
flattened
mountain
double X
(xx)
mother cow
“two”
small
double
moon
my box
home
figure
stool next
to table
stirring
rod
compare fur
dog (ne)lly king origin
rice field
two
branch
tree
sheep feathers rake
tongue boat clothes good color
running
man
shore
breaker
cave stand
three
brach tree
seven
cliffs
T-cliff direction heaven
family
name
community
battle tent white
Nellyʼs
got a
knife
generation
spirit
devil wing
covered
stool
giant
ear brush meat self
bug blood go west
7
8
9+
6
servant see say
rice slide
empty
rice field
fish leg
house
gold leader gate emperor rain blue alleyway
noise
clam with
leaf hat
bird hemp
bean hog clam red leg car bitter
mountain
horns
excuse equal
wind food neck goods horse tall demon dragon admirable fish
standing
on a holy
hand
grenade
yellow black none tooth
underground
clothes
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