Radical 88
Chinese character radical
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Radical 88 or radical father or light (父部) meaning "father" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 父 | |
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Radical 88 (U+2F57)
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| 父 (U+7236) "father light" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | fù guang |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄨˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | fu4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | fuh |
| Jyutping: | fu2/fu6 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | hū |
| Japanese Kana: | フ fu (on'yomi) ちち chichi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 부 bu |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 父字頭/父字头 fùzìtóu/光之旁 |
| Japanese name(s): | 父/ちち chichi |
| Hangul: | 아비 abi |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) 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.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an isolated kanji is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji and it means father.[1]
