丿 (piě) is Kangxi radical no. 4, “falling stroke”. In this form it is written with 1 stroke.
As a radical, 丿 (piě) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “falling stroke” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 2 to 10 strokes. 2 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 0 have a full word page of their own.
Good ones to start with: 么 (me) interrogative particle, 乐 (lè) happy, 久 (jiǔ) (long) time, 乎 (hū) interrogative or exclamatory final….
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