Radical 180

Radical 180 or radical sound meaning "sound" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 43 characters to be found under this radical.
音 is also the 186th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.