| 水 | ||
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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 | |
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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.
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.
- ^ 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.