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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.
蒹 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (grass) carries the meaning, while 兼 indicates the sound.
Radical: 艹 + 10 more strokes
jiān蒹

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Open the tool →蒹 (jiān) means “Reeds without ears” in Chinese.
蒹 is pronounced jiān in Mandarin Chinese.
蒹 has 13 strokes.
蒹 is written in 13 strokes, starting from the radical 艹. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 蒹 is 艹, and 蒹 is a phono-semantic compound.