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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.
宙 is a phono-semantic compound: 宀 (roof - the sky) carries the meaning, while 由 indicates the sound.
Radical: 宀 + 5 more strokes
zhòu宙

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Open the tool →宙 (zhòu) means “All time from past to present” in Chinese.
宙 is pronounced zhòu in Mandarin Chinese.
宙 has 8 strokes.
宙 is written in 8 strokes, starting from the radical 宀. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 宙 is 宀, and 宙 is a phono-semantic compound.