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Pinyin:
  
huǒ

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:
  
huoo

Cantonese Yale:
  
fó

Bopomofo:
  
ㄏㄨㄛˇ

Wade–Giles:
  
huo

Jyutping:
  
fo2

Radical 86

Radical 86 meaning "fire" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals 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 Wu Xing ("Five Phases"), 火 represents the element Fire. In Taoist cosmology, 火 (Fire) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram 離 Lí.

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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