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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.
孥 is a phono-semantic compound: 子 (son) carries the meaning, while 奴 indicates the sound.
Radical: 子 + 5 more strokes
nú孥

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Open the tool →孥 (nú) means “Nú refers to one's children” in Chinese.
孥 is pronounced nú in Mandarin Chinese.
孥 has 8 strokes.
孥 is written in 8 strokes, starting from the radical 子. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 孥 is 子, and 孥 is a phono-semantic compound.