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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.
胬 is a phono-semantic compound: 肉 (flesh) carries the meaning, while 奴 indicates the sound.
Radical: 肉 + 5 more strokes
nǔ胬

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Open the tool →胬 (nǔ) means “Pterygium: an eye condition where the conjunctiva grows abnormally onto the cornea, forming a fleshy mass” in Chinese.
胬 is pronounced nǔ in Mandarin Chinese.
胬 has 11 strokes.
胬 is written in 11 strokes, starting from the radical 肉. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 胬 is 肉, and 胬 is a phono-semantic compound.