| Uni: | 706B |
| Meaning: | fire |
| Pny: | huǒ |
| Bopo: | ㄏㄨㄛˇ |
| Gr: | huoo |
| Wade: | huo3 |
| Jyutping: | fo2 |
| Yale: | fó |
| Poj: | hó͘ⁿ |
| Cn: | (Left) 火字旁 huǒzìpáng (灬) 四點底/四点底 sìdiǎndǐ |
| Onyomi: | カ ka コ ko |
| Kunyomi: | ひ hi |
| Jp: | 火/ひ hi (Left) 火偏/ひへん hihen れんが renga (灬) 烈火/れっか rekka |
| Hang: | 불 bul (灬) 연화발 yeonhwabal |
| Hanja: | 화 hwa |
Radical 86 or radical fire 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 Lí.
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 being its associated indexing component.
| Strokes | Characters | |
|---|---|---|
| +0 | ||
| +1 | SC (= -> 水) | |
| +2 | SC/JP (=燈) SC/TC/JP | |
| +3 | SC (= -> 雨) SC/TC variant (=災) SC (=燦) SC (=煬) | |
| +4 | (= -> 气) SC/JP (=爐) (= -> 儿) (=光) SC (=煒) SC (=熗) | |
| +5 | SC/TC/JP (=炱) SC/JP (= -> 黑) SC (=煉) SC (=熾) (=烐) SC (=爍) SC (=爛) SC (=烴) | |
| +6 | (=煥) SC (=燭) (=煙) (=光) (=炬) SC (=煩) SC (=燒) SC (=燁) SC (=燴) SC (=燙) SC (=燼) SC (=熱) (=烈) SC variant | |
| +7 | TC variant JP (=焰) SC (=煥) SC (=燜) SC (=燾) SC variant | |
| +8 | TC variant JP (=燒) SC variant | |
| +9 | TC variant (=煮) (=熙) SC/HK (=熅) SC variant SC variant | |
| +10 | TC variant (=熙) TC variant GB TC variant | |
| +11 | SC variant | |
| +12 | TC variant Traditional variant (=焰) (=煚) SC variant | |
| +13 | TC variant SC/TC variant (=燣) | |
| +14 | GB TC variant SC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant | |
| +15 | Traditional variant TC variant (=熏) Traditional variant SC variant | |
| +16 | TC variant Traditional variant GB TC variant | |
| +17 | ||
| +18 | Traditional variant | |
| +19 | Traditional variant | |
| +20 | GB TC variant | |
| +21 | Traditional variant | |
| +24 | ||
| +25 | ||
| +29 |
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.