Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Animation shown for the standard form 戻, which 戾 is a variant of.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 戾 is filed under 戶 (door) — radical number 63 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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戾 means Perverse, Recalcitrant, Rebellious.
戾 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) れい、らい; kun'yomi (native Japanese) もどす、もとる、いたる.
戾 is written with 8 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 戾 is 戶 (door), radical number 63 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.
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