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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.
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Radical: 鱼 + 5 more strokes
hòu鲎

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Open the tool →鲎 (hòu) means “A small freshwater arthropod” in Chinese.
鲎 is pronounced hòu in Mandarin Chinese.
鲎 has 13 strokes.
鲎 is written in 13 strokes, starting from the radical 鱼. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 鲎 is 鱼, and 鲎 is a phono-semantic compound.