夕 (xī) is Kangxi radical no. 36, “evening”. In this form it is written with 3 strokes.
As a radical, 夕 (xī) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “evening” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 3 to 11 strokes. 2 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 3 have a full word page of their own.
Good ones to start with: 外 (wài) outside / foreign / external, 多 (duō) many / much.
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