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6 strokes

(Kangxi radical 24, +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人心十 (OPJ), four-corner 24401, composition)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic + semantic (“stalk and leaves”). The top component in / has been simplified to a phonetic element (huà).

This character first appeared in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme by the People's Republic of China and is not known to have existed prior to that.