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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.
蒡 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (plant) carries the meaning, while 旁 indicates the sound.
Radical: 艹 + 10 more strokes
bàng蒡

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Open the tool →蒡 (bàng) means “Burdock (niúbàng) is a biennial herbaceous plant. Its fleshy roots and young leaves are edible. Its seeds (niúbàngzǐ) are used in traditional medicine” in Chinese.
蒡 is pronounced bàng in Mandarin Chinese.
蒡 has 13 strokes.
蒡 is written in 13 strokes, starting from the radical 艹. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 蒡 is 艹, and 蒡 is a phono-semantic compound.