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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.
耨 is a phono-semantic compound: 耒 (plow) carries the meaning, while 辱 indicates the sound.
Radical: 耒 + 10 more strokes
nòu耨

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Open the tool →耨 (nòu) means “to weed or cultivate the soil deeply” in Chinese.
耨 is pronounced nòu in Mandarin Chinese.
耨 has 16 strokes.
耨 is written in 16 strokes, starting from the radical 耒. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 耨 is 耒, and 耨 is a phono-semantic compound.