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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.
鹳 is a phono-semantic compound: 鸟 (bird) carries the meaning, while 雚 indicates the sound.
Radical: 鸟 + 17 more strokes
guàn鹳

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Open the tool →鹳 (guàn) means “A large wading bird” in Chinese.
鹳 is pronounced guàn in Mandarin Chinese.
鹳 has 22 strokes.
鹳 is written in 22 strokes, starting from the radical 鸟. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 鹳 is 鸟, and 鹳 is a phono-semantic compound.