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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.
艄 is a phono-semantic compound: 舟 (ship) carries the meaning, while 肖 indicates the sound.
Radical: 舟 + 7 more strokes
shāo艄

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Open the tool →艄 (shāo) means “Rudder” in Chinese.
艄 is pronounced shāo in Mandarin Chinese.
艄 has 13 strokes.
艄 is written in 13 strokes, starting from the radical 舟. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 艄 is 舟, and 艄 is a phono-semantic compound.