Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Almost every kanji is built from a small set of reusable parts. Learn the parts once and you stop memorising thousands of unrelated shapes.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 瘋 is filed under 疒 (sickness) — radical number 104 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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Kanji are almost never met alone. These are the most common words built from this character, ordered by how often they actually appear in Japanese.
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瘋 means Insanity, Headache.
瘋 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) ふう.
瘋 is written with 14 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 瘋 is 疒 (sickness), radical number 104 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.
瘋 is built from 疒 (trailing sickness) and 風 (wind). Learning kanji as combinations of a few hundred reusable components is far more efficient than memorising each character as a separate shape.
Common words written with 瘋 include 瘋狂 (フーキョー, insanity, insane person; arbiter of taste, connoisseur); 瘋癲 (フーテン, insanity, insane person; vagabond, wanderer).
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