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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.
jiù臼

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Open the tool →臼 (jiù) means “A mortar” in Chinese.
臼 is pronounced jiù in Mandarin Chinese.
臼 has 6 strokes.
臼 is written in 6 strokes, starting from the radical 臼. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 臼 is 臼, and 臼 is a pictograph.