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. 亶 is filed under 亠 (lid) — radical number 8 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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亶 means Truly, Wholly, Cordial.
亶 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) たん、せん; kun'yomi (native Japanese) あつ.い、ほしいまま.
亶 is written with 13 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 亶 is 亠 (lid), radical number 8 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.
亶 is built from 㐭 and 旦 (daybreak). Learning kanji as combinations of a few hundred reusable components is far more efficient than memorising each character as a separate shape.
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