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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.
慕 is a phono-semantic compound: ⺗ (heart) carries the meaning, while 莫 indicates the sound.
Radical: ⺗ + 11 more strokes
mù慕

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Open the tool →慕 (mù) means “To admire” in Chinese.
慕 is pronounced mù in Mandarin Chinese.
慕 has 14 strokes.
慕 is written in 14 strokes, starting from the radical ⺗. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 慕 is ⺗, and 慕 is a phono-semantic compound.