殳 (shū) is Kangxi radical no. 79, “weapon; strike”. In this form it is written with 4 strokes.
As a radical, 殳 (shū) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “weapon” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 8 to 15 strokes. None of them is in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 1 has a full word page of its own.
Good ones to start with: 段 (duàn) section / paragraph / period.
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