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Radical 86
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Radical 86 or radical fire (火部) meaning "fire" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
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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.
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Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
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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.
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