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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.
篥 is a phono-semantic compound: ⺮ (flute) carries the meaning, while 栗 indicates the sound.
Radical: ⺮ + 10 more strokes
lì篥

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Open the tool →篥 (lì) means “When pronounced 'lì'” in Chinese.
篥 is pronounced lì in Mandarin Chinese.
篥 has 16 strokes.
篥 is written in 16 strokes, starting from the radical ⺮. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 篥 is ⺮, and 篥 is a phono-semantic compound.