Radical 86 (U+2F55)
(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
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 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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1SC (= -> )
+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
+10TC 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
+15Traditional variant TC variant (=熏) Traditional variant SC variant
+16 TC variant Traditional variant GB TC variant
+17
+18 Traditional variant
+19Traditional variant
+20 GB TC variant
+21Traditional variant
+24
+25
+29

Sinogram

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 and means fire.

References

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

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