What is Bushu(Radical)? – List of Kanji Radicals

部首 – Bushu (Radical) literally means “section header”. It is a component of Kanji, and often indicate the meaning of Kanji.

A Chinese radical (部首; bushu; literally: “section header”) is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. This component is often a semantic indicator (that is, an indicator of the meaning of the character), though in some cases the original semantic connection has become obscure, owing to changes in character meaning over time. In other cases, the radical may be a phonetic component or even an artificially extracted portion of the character.  wikipedia – Radical (Chiniese characters)

List of Bushu(Kanji Radical)