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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.
曜 is an ideographic compound. A spectacular 翟 star 日; 翟 also provides the pronunciation.
Radical: 日 + 14 more strokes
yào曜

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Open the tool →曜 (yào) means “To shine” in Chinese.
曜 is pronounced yào in Mandarin Chinese.
曜 has 18 strokes.
曜 is written in 18 strokes, starting from the radical 日. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 曜 is 日, and 曜 is an ideographic compound.