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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.
bamboo.
Radical: ⺮ + 5 more strokes
zǐ笫

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Open the tool →笫 (zǐ) means “A bamboo mat on a bed” in Chinese.
笫 is pronounced zǐ in Mandarin Chinese.
笫 has 10 strokes.
笫 is written in 10 strokes, starting from the radical ⺮. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 笫 is ⺮, and 笫 is a phono-semantic compound.