There are so many complicated variants in Shui characters because of its nature of ideogram.The investigation about the variants is quite indispensable in the study on Shui characters.

• 其表意文字的性质决定了水文常见字中必然会产生大量复杂的异体现象，对这一现象的研究是水文文字学研究不可或缺的重要组成部分。