Radical 86

Radical 86 is with the meaning "fire" is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with four strokes. With 154 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

Radical 86 is in close proximity of radical 85水(= water ), with which it also has a purely visual similarities.

The character evolved from the pictorial representation of a blazing fire up, the spelling variant with the four points灬(which is always down ), however, from the ashes, the remains of the fire left.

One of the many character compounds of灬sign with another eight strokes is the negation无, which in turn can be substituted by无, actually radical 71 as a short character.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 86

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 86 of the Code Point number 12,117 (U 2 F55 ).

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