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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.
胝 is a phono-semantic compound: ⺼ (flesh) carries the meaning, while 氐 indicates the sound.
Radical: ⺼ + 5 more strokes
zhī胝

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Open the tool →胝 (zhī) means “When pronounced as 'zhī'” in Chinese.
胝 is pronounced zhī in Mandarin Chinese.
胝 has 9 strokes.
胝 is written in 9 strokes, starting from the radical ⺼. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 胝 is ⺼, and 胝 is a phono-semantic compound.