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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.
鲷 is a phono-semantic compound: 鱼 (fish) carries the meaning, while 周 indicates the sound.
Radical: 鱼 + 8 more strokes
diāo鲷

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Open the tool →鲷 (diāo) means “Red sea bream (Pagrus major)” in Chinese.
鲷 is pronounced diāo in Mandarin Chinese.
鲷 has 16 strokes.
鲷 is written in 16 strokes, starting from the radical 鱼. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 鲷 is 鱼, and 鲷 is a phono-semantic compound.