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. 姶 is filed under 女 (woman) — radical number 38 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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姶 means Good-looking, Quiet.
姶 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) おう、あい; kun'yomi (native Japanese) あい.
姶 is written with 9 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 姶 is 女 (woman), radical number 38 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.
姶 is built from 女 (woman) and 合 (fit). 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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