Radical 85
Radical 85 or radical water 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, meaning "ice", from which it differs by the addition of just one stroke.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,595 characters 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 and being its associated indexing component.
In the Chinese wuxing, 水 represents the element Water. In Taoist cosmology, 水 is the nature component of the bagua diagram kǎn.