Radical 86 or radical fire (火部) meaning "fire" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

← 85 Radical 86 (U+2F55) 87 →
(U+706B) "fire"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:huǒ
Bopomofo:ㄏㄨㄛˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:huoo
Wade–Giles:huo3
Cantonese Yale:
Jyutping:fo2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:hó͘ⁿ
Japanese Kana:カ ka
コ ko
(on'yomi)
ひ hi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:화 hwa
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 火字旁 huǒzìpáng
(灬) 四點底/四点底 sìdiǎndǐ
Japanese name(s):火/ひ hi
(Left) 火偏/ひへん hihen
れんが renga
(灬) 烈火/れっか rekka
Hangul:불 bul
(灬) 연화발 yeonhwabal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 639 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 火 represents the element Fire. In Taoist cosmology, 火 (Fire) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram .

is also the 95th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+1 SC (= -> )
+2 SC/JP (=燈) SC/TC/JP
+3 SC (= -> ) SC/TC variant (=災) SC (=燦) SC (=煬)
+4 (= -> ) SC/JP (=爐) (= -> ) (=光) SC (=煒) SC (=熗)
+5 SC/TC/JP (=炱) SC/JP (= -> ) SC (=煉) SC (=熾) (=烐) SC (=爍) SC (=爛) SC (=烴)
+6 (=煥) SC (=燭) (=煙) (=光) (=炬) SC (=煩) SC (=燒) SC (=燁) SC (=燴) SC (=燙) SC (=燼) SC (=熱) (=烈) SC variant
+7 TC variant JP (=焰) SC (=煥) SC (=燜) SC (=燾) SC variant
+8 TC variant JP (=燒) SC variant
+9 TC variant (=煮) (=熙) SC/HK (=熅) SC variant SC variant
+10 TC variant (=熙) TC variant GB TC variant
+11 SC variant
+12 TC variant Traditional variant (=焰) (=煚) SC variant
+13 TC variant SC/TC variant (=燣)
+14 GB TC variant SC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant
+15 Traditional variant TC variant (=熏) Traditional variant SC variant
+16 TC variant Traditional variant GB TC variant
+17
+18 Traditional variant
+19 Traditional variant
+20 GB TC variant
+21 Traditional variant
+24
+25
+29

Sinogram

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It also exists as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is taught in first grade.

References

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  1. ^ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Further reading

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