亅 (jué) is Kangxi radical no. 6, “hook”. In this form it is written with 1 stroke.
As a radical, 亅 (jué) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “hook” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 2 to 8 strokes. 2 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 1 has a full word page of its own.
Good ones to start with: 了 (le) particle: completed action, 事 (shì) matter.
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