Radical 86
| 火 | |
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Radical 86 (U+2F55)
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| 火 (U+706B) "fire" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | huǒ |
| Bopomofo: | ㄏㄨㄛˇ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | huoo |
| Wade–Giles: | huo3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | fó |
| 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 | |
Radical 86 or radical fire (火部) meaning "fire" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
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 bagua diagram 離 Lí.
火 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 灬 being its associated indexing component.