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Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.
捌 is an ideographic compound. To separate 别 by hand 扌; 别 also provides the pronunciation.
Radical: 扌 + 7 more strokes
bā捌

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Open the tool →捌 (bā) means “To tear open or split something” in Chinese.
捌 is pronounced bā in Mandarin Chinese.
捌 has 10 strokes.
捌 is written in 10 strokes, starting from the radical 扌. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 捌 is 扌, and 捌 is an ideographic compound.