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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.
槔 is a phono-semantic compound: 木 (wood) carries the meaning, while 皋 indicates the sound.
Radical: 木 + 10 more strokes
gāo槔

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Open the tool →槔 (gāo) means “Used in the compound '桔槔' (júgāo), which refers to a well-sweep or shaduf, an ancient device used for drawing water from a well” in Chinese.
槔 is pronounced gāo in Mandarin Chinese.
槔 has 14 strokes.
槔 is written in 14 strokes, starting from the radical 木. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 槔 is 木, and 槔 is a phono-semantic compound.