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kangxi radical fire

Kangxi Radical Fire

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⽕ is fire radical 86, a standalone index character used to group characters in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing by radical and remaining strokes. The 214-radical lookup method began in the 1615 Chinese dictionary Zihui and was adopted by the Kangxi Dictionary in 1716. Oracle-bone inscriptions—divination writing carved on bone—show ordinary 火 as a flame pictograph; is the radical's bottom-position form. Use 火 in ordinary text.

Text symbol

What ⽕ means

⽕ is the kangxi radical fire. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Kangxi Radicals block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

⽕ is a single code point, U2F55. In HTML that is ⽕, and in CSS \2F55.

This specialist glyph belongs in character indexes; ordinary writing uses 火.

For the word “fire,” use 火; ⽕ is the standalone index form.

Don't confuse it with

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火
CJK Unified Ideograph-706B
火 is the ordinary written character for fire; ⽕ is a separate character used to identify the radical in a character index.

Questions people ask

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Why does ⽕ show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Kangxi Radicals block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.

Collections with ⽕

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How to type or find ⽕

Also called
fire radical · Kangxi radical 86
Search it as
radical 86 · ⽕ vs 火 · ⺣ fire form · U+2F55
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2F55, then AltX to get ⽕.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “kangxi radical fire”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2f55, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⽕
CSS
\2F55
Unicode character picker
Search for “Kangxi Radical Fire” or enter U2F55 in a picker that accepts Unicode hexadecimal input.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⽕
HTML hex
⽕
CSS content
content: "\2F55";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BD%95
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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