Radical 85 meaning "water" is one of 35 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 4 strokes. Radical 85 is closely related to Radical 15 (= 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"), represents the element Water. In Taoist cosmology, (Water) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram K n.