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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.
鸺 is a phono-semantic compound: 鸟 (bird) carries the meaning, while 休 indicates the sound.
Radical: 鸟 + 6 more strokes
xiū鸺

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Open the tool →鸺 (xiū) means “A type of small owl” in Chinese.
鸺 is pronounced xiū in Mandarin Chinese.
鸺 has 11 strokes.
鸺 is written in 11 strokes, starting from the radical 鸟. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 鸺 is 鸟, and 鸺 is a phono-semantic compound.