Radical 131

Radical 131 or radical minister meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters to be found under this radical.
臣 is also the 125th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fourth grade kanji.