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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.
踟 is a phono-semantic compound: 足 (foot) carries the meaning, while 知 indicates the sound.
Radical: 足 + 8 more strokes
chí踟

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Open the tool →踟 (chí) means “To hesitate to move forward or to be indecisive about whether to proceed” in Chinese.
踟 is pronounced chí in Mandarin Chinese.
踟 has 15 strokes.
踟 is written in 15 strokes, starting from the radical 足. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 踟 is 足, and 踟 is a phono-semantic compound.