Radical 88
Radical 88 or radical father or light () meaning "father" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. 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

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

References

Literature

External links

Unihan Database - U+7236

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Kyōiku kanji