Radical 85

水
← 84 Radical +85 (U+2F54) 86 →
水 (U+6C34) "water"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shuǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄨㄟˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	shoei
Wade–Giles:	shui3
Cantonese Yale:	séui
Jyutping:	seoi2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	súi
Japanese Kana:	スイ sui (on'yomi) みず mizu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	수 su
Names
Chinese name(s):	(氵) 三點水/三点水 sāndiǎnshuǐ
Japanese name(s):	水/みず mizu[1] (氵) 三水/さんずい sanzui (Bottom) 下水/したみず shitamizu
Hangul:	물 mul
Stroke order animation

Radical 85 or radical water (水部) meaning "water" is a Kangxi radical; one of 35 of the 214 that are composed of 4 strokes. Its left-hand form, 氵, is closely related to Radical 15, 冫 bīng (also known as 两点水 liǎngdiǎnshuǐ), meaning "ice", from which it differs by the addition of just one stroke.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,595 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

水 is also the 77th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 氵 and 氺 being its associated indexing component.

In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 水 represents the element Water. In Taoist cosmology, 水 (Water) is the nature component of the bagua diagram 坎 kǎn.

Evolution[]

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  Oracle bone script character

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  Bronze script character

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  Large seal script character

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  Small seal script character

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