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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.
椅 is a phono-semantic compound: 木 (wood) carries the meaning, while 奇 indicates the sound.
Radical: 木 + 8 more strokes
yǐ椅
yī椅

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Open the tool →椅 (yǐ) means “A seat with a backrest” in Chinese.
椅 has 2 pronunciations: yǐ, yī.
椅 has 12 strokes.
椅 is written in 12 strokes, starting from the radical 木. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 椅 is 木, and 椅 is a phono-semantic compound.