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部首

ぶしゅ

radical (of a kanji character)

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Examples

  1. この漢字の部首は何ですか。

    このかんじのぶしゅはなんですか。

    What is the radical of this kanji?

  2. 部首が分かれば、辞書で漢字を探せます。

    ぶしゅがわかれば、じしょでかんじをさがせます。

    If you know the radical, you can look a kanji up in a dictionary.

  3. 「海」の部首は、水を表すさんずいです。

    「うみ」のぶしゅは、みずをあらわすさんずいです。

    The radical of 海 is sanzui, which stands for water.

Common patterns

部首で引く
to look up by radical
部首索引
radical index
部首を覚える
to learn the radicals

Memory tip

部 is a section and 首 is the head, so the 部首 is the "section head" under which a character is filed in a dictionary. Individual pieces of a kanji are 部品; only the indexing one is the 部首.

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What does 部首 mean?