Radical 170

Radical 170 or radical mound meaning "mound" or "dam" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into 阝 when used as a left component.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 348 characters to be found under this radical.
阜 is also the 175th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 阝 listed as its associated indexing component.

Kanji

This kanji is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji or kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan. It was added because it is the second character in Gifu Prefecture.