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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.
孢 is a phono-semantic compound: 子 (seed) carries the meaning, while 包 indicates the sound.
Radical: 子 + 5 more strokes
bāo孢

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Open the tool →孢 (bāo) means “A reproductive cell produced by fungi, algae, and plants that can develop into a new individual without sexual fusion; a spore” in Chinese.
孢 is pronounced bāo in Mandarin Chinese.
孢 has 8 strokes.
孢 is written in 8 strokes, starting from the radical 子. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 孢 is 子, and 孢 is a phono-semantic compound.