矢 (shǐ) is Kangxi radical no. 111, “arrow”. In this form it is written with 5 strokes.
As a radical, 矢 (shǐ) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “arrow” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 5 to 13 strokes. 1 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: 短 (duǎn) short / brief, 知 (zhī) to know, 矮 (ǎi) low.
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