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.

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.

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

As an isolated kanji is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a second grade kanji and it means father.^[1]

• Chinese kinship