Radical 89 or radical double x () meaning "trigrams" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
This radical does not exist in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution 爻 Unrelated to 父; compare 网.
爽 Compound 大 + 2x 火; means "bright"
爾 Simplified chinese and shinjitai: 尔. Originally meant "loom", phonetically borrowed to represent "you".
Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 +5 +7 +10
Literature
External links
Unihan Database - U+723B