| 火 | ||
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| 火 (U+706B) "fire" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | huǒ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄏㄨㄛˇ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | huoo | |
| Wade–Giles: | huo3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | fó | |
| 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 (灬) 연화발 yeonhwabal | |
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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.
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 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.