Radical 86 or radical fire () meaning "fire" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in 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 wuxing ("Five Phases"), ç« represents the element Fire. In Taoist cosmology, ç« (Fire) is the nature component of the bagua diagram LÃÂ.
is also the 95th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.
It also exists as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyà Âiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in first grade.