Any of a set of 214 radicals (the portion of a Chinese character that provides an indication of its meaning) introduced in the Zihui and named after the more popular Kangxi Dictionary. This set of radicals has become the standard for sorting and ordering Chinese characters.

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism which calls for a radical reordering of society to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.

plural of Kangxi radical

plural of radical center

plural of radical anion

plural of radical cation

plural of radical plane

plural of radical feminism

plural of radical ideal

(algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory) An ideal I within a ring R that is its own radical (i.e., for any r ∈ R, if rⁿ ∈ I for some positive integer n, then r ∈ I).