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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

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

Kanji

As an isolated kanji is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji and it means father.

See also

• Chinese kinship

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+7236