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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.
缑 is a phono-semantic compound: 纟 (silk) carries the meaning, while 侯 indicates the sound.
Radical: 纟 + 9 more strokes
gōu缑

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Open the tool →缑 (gōu) means “A rope or cord wrapped around the hilt of a sword or the handle of a similar weapon” in Chinese.
缑 is pronounced gōu in Mandarin Chinese.
缑 has 12 strokes.
缑 is written in 12 strokes, starting from the radical 纟. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 缑 is 纟, and 缑 is a phono-semantic compound.