士 (shì) is Kangxi radical no. 33, “scholar”. In this form it is written with 3 strokes.
As a radical, 士 (shì) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “scholar” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 3 to 10 strokes. 1 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: 士 (shì) scholar, gentleman, 声 (shēng) sound.
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