





乂 is written in 2 strokes, following the standard Chinese stroke order. Start from the radical 丿, then complete the remaining strokes.
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.
乂 is an ideographic compound. Shears, for cultivating a garden.
Radical: 丿 + 1 more stroke
yì乂

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Open the tool →乂 (yì) means “To govern” in Chinese.
乂 is pronounced yì in Mandarin Chinese.
乂 has 2 strokes.
乂 is written in 2 strokes, starting from the radical 丿. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 乂 is 丿, and 乂 is an ideographic compound.