Radical 86


Radical 86 or radical fire meaning "fire" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 639 characters to be found under this radical.
In the Chinese wuxing, 火 represents the element Fire. In Taoist cosmology, 火 is the nature component of the bagua diagram 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.

Sinogram

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