Radical 85

Radical 85 with the meaning " water, liquid " is one of the 34 traditional of the 214 radicals of Chinese characters that are written with four strokes.

With 433 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon. Radical 85 is closely associated with radical 15冫( = ice). A dash less indicates that the water is frozen.

In modern abbreviation dictionaries water radical has a different position. In the new Sino- German dictionary it takes the positions of a number 40 and number 125氵水.

The character evolved from three parallel water lines, according to the radical 47 (川chuan = current). Through the writing brush changed the shape of the character until it gained its present shape.

Spelling variant of the radical :氵(which is always the left).

The variant氵is similar to Katakanaツ" tsu ".

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 85

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 85 of the Code Point number 12,116 (U 2 F54 ).

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