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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.
菝 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (plant) carries the meaning, while 拔 indicates the sound.
Radical: 艹 + 8 more strokes
bá菝

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Open the tool →菝 (bá) means “Refers to the plant Smilax china (菝葜), a perennial woody herb with thorny stems, yellow-green flowers, orange-red berries, and medicinal underground rhizomes” in Chinese.
菝 is pronounced bá in Mandarin Chinese.
菝 has 11 strokes.
菝 is written in 11 strokes, starting from the radical 艹. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 菝 is 艹, and 菝 is a phono-semantic compound.