Radical 85 or radical water () meaning "
water" is a
Kangxi radical
The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters.
The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...
; 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.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 1,595 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this
radical
Radical may refer to:
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*Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change
*Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ...
.
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
File:水-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script
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character
File:水-bronze.svg, Bronze script
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...
character
File:水-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:水-seal.svg, Small seal script
The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty.
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character
Derived characters
Literature
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*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, tai
References
External links
Unihan Database - U+6C34Full list of characters with radical 85
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
085
077
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