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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.
蓼 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (grass) carries the meaning, while 翏 indicates the sound.
Radical: 艹 + 11 more strokes
liǎo蓼
lù蓼

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Open the tool →蓼 (liǎo) means “An annual herbaceous plant” in Chinese.
蓼 has 2 pronunciations: liǎo, lù.
蓼 has 14 strokes.
蓼 is written in 14 strokes, starting from the radical 艹. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 蓼 is 艹, and 蓼 is a phono-semantic compound.