Radical 父

4 strokes

eight 八 (20) + shears 乂 (25a) = father 父

父亲 (196) fùqīn father

(At the barber’s) Picture the octopus wielding a pair of shears, giving a haircut to your father! / In the next chair along, a dwarf is grumpily trimming the beard of Fu Manchu (he doesn’t hold with all this personal vanity).