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

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

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

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

Evolution

File:火-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character
File:火-bronze.svg, Chinese bronze inscriptions, Bronze script character
File:火-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:火-seal.svg, Small seal script character

Derived characters

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+706B

{{Simplified Chinese radicals

Kangxi radicals, 086
Simplified Chinese radicals, 095