Radical 85

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, , is closely related to Radical 15, bīng (also known as 两点水 liǎngdiǎnshuǐ), meaning "ice", from which it differs by the addition of just one stroke.

Radical +85 (U+2F54)
(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):() 三點水/三点水 sāndiǎnshuǐ
Japanese name(s):水/みず mizu[1]
() 三水/さんずい sanzui
(Bottom) 下水/したみず shitamizu
Hangul:물 mul
Stroke order animation

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

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 and 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 kǎn.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1
+2 氿 SC (=匯) SC (=漢)
+3 (=污) JP (=污) SC (=湯)
+4 汿 SC (=溝) SC/JP (=沒) JP (=澤) SC (=灃) SC (=漚) SC (=瀝) SC (=淪) SC (=滄) SC (=渢) SC (=溈) SC (=滬)
+5 沿 SC (=濘) SC (=澩) SC (=瀧) SC (=瀘) SC (=濼) SC (=瀉) SC (=潑) SC (=澤) SC (=涇) SC (=淺)
+6泿 洿 SC (=浹) JP (=淨) JP (=淺) SC (=漿) SC (=澆) SC (=湞) SC (=浉) SC (=濁) SC (=測) SC (=澮) SC (=濟) SC (=瀏) SC (=滻) SC (=渾) SC (=滸) SC (=濃) SC (=潯) SC (=濜) JP variant
+7 (also JP form of 濱) SC/TC/KO variant 浿 JP (=淚) SC (=涗) SC/JP (=濤) JP (=瀆) SC (=澇) SC (=淶) SC (=漣) SC (=潿) SC (=渦) SC (=溳) SC (=渙) SC (=滌) SC (=潤) SC (=澗) SC (=漲) SC (=澀) JP (=涉)
+8 涿 Kangxi/KO (=清) 淿 JP (=渴) JP (=濟) SC (=淵) JP (=澀) SC (=淥) SC (=漬) SC (=瀆) SC (=漸) SC (=澠) JP (=溪) SC (=漁) (=淵) SC nonstandard (=瀋) SC (=滲)
+9 SC/HK/JP (=溫) 渿 (=淳) (=涅) (=淄) SC/JP (=灣) 湿SC/JP (=濕) JP (=滿) SC (=濚) SC (=潰) (=漨) SC (=濺) SC/variant (=漵) SC (=漊) JP (=潑) SC variant (=滯)
+10 (=濕) 溿 (=匯) SC (=滾) (=淫) JP (=瀧) JP variant (=滯) SC (=灩) SC (=灄) SC (=滿) SC (=瀅) SC (=濾) SC (=濫) SC (=灤) SC (=濱) SC (=灘) SC (=澦)
+11 滿 漿 JP (=灌) SC (=瀠) JP (=瀟) (=漵) SC (=瀲) SC (=濰)
+12 SC/variant (=瀦) 潿 (=溜) SC (=瀂) SC (=瀾) (=濘)
+13 (=潟) 澿 SC (=瀨) SC (=瀕) SC (=濂)
+14 (=濱)
+15 (=灒) 濿 瀀 (=瀸) (=澀)
+16 JP (=瀨)
+17
+18 SC (=灝)
+19
+20
+21
+22
+23 (=灩)
+24 (=灩)
+26
+28

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5859-0204-2 tai

References

  1. Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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