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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.
蟥 is a phono-semantic compound: 虫 (worm) carries the meaning, while 黄 indicates the sound.
Radical: 虫 + 12 more strokes
huáng蟥

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Open the tool →蟥 (huáng) means “leech” in Chinese.
蟥 is pronounced huáng in Mandarin Chinese.
蟥 has 17 strokes.
蟥 is written in 17 strokes, starting from the radical 虫. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 蟥 is 虫, and 蟥 is a phono-semantic compound.