水

水
Radical 85 (U+2F54)
(U+6C34) "water"
Pinyin:	shuǐ sān diǎn shuǐ
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄨㄟˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	shoei
Wade–Giles:	shui3
Cantonese Yale:	séui
Jyutping:	seoi2
Hiragana:	スイ, みず sui, mizu
Kanji:	三水 sanzui 水 mizu
Hangul:	물 mul
Sino-Korean:	수 su
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Radical 85 meaning "water" is one of 35 of the 214 Kangxi radicals 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 liǎng diǎn shuǐ), 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.

In the Chinese Wu Xing ("Five Phases"), 水 represents the element Water. In Taoist cosmology, 水 (Water) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram  Kǎn.

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