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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.
炻 is an ideographic compound. Fired 火 clay 石; 石 also provides the pronunciation.
Radical: 火 + 5 more strokes
shí炻

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Open the tool →炻 (shí) means “Referring to 'stoneware' (炻器)” in Chinese.
炻 is pronounced shí in Mandarin Chinese.
炻 has 9 strokes.
炻 is written in 9 strokes, starting from the radical 火. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 炻 is 火, and 炻 is an ideographic compound.