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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.
跣 is a phono-semantic compound: 足 (foot) carries the meaning, while 先 indicates the sound.
Radical: 足 + 6 more strokes
xiǎn跣

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Open the tool →跣 (xiǎn) means “To be barefoot” in Chinese.
跣 is pronounced xiǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
跣 has 13 strokes.
跣 is written in 13 strokes, starting from the radical 足. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 跣 is 足, and 跣 is a phono-semantic compound.