Radical 85
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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.
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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 (氵) 삼수변/三水邊 samsubyeon | |||
Stroke order animation | ||||
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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.