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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.
謇 is a phono-semantic compound: 言 (speech) carries the meaning, while 宀 indicates the sound.
Radical: 言 + 10 more strokes
jiǎn謇

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Open the tool →謇 (jiǎn) means “Upright” in Chinese.
謇 is pronounced jiǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
謇 has 17 strokes.
謇 is written in 17 strokes, starting from the radical 言. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 謇 is 言, and 謇 is a phono-semantic compound.