Radical 88


Radical 88 or radical father or light meaning "father" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters to be found under this radical.
父 is also the 87th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Sinogram

As an isolated kanji is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji and it means father.