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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.
岫 is a phono-semantic compound: 山 (mountain) carries the meaning, while 由 indicates the sound.
Radical: 山 + 5 more strokes
xiù岫

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Open the tool →岫 (xiù) means “A mountain cave” in Chinese.
岫 is pronounced xiù in Mandarin Chinese.
岫 has 8 strokes.
岫 is written in 8 strokes, starting from the radical 山. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 岫 is 山, and 岫 is a phono-semantic compound.