Radical 88

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
Radical 88 (U+2F57)
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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0父
+2爷SC (=爺)
+4爸
+5㸖 斧
+6爹
+9爺

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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