Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
No stroke-order animation exists for this character — KanjiVG covers 6,702 kanji, and the rarer forms are not among them.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 朢 is filed under 月 (moon) — radical number 74 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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朢 means Look At, Gaze At, Hope, Expect.
朢 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) ぼう、もう; kun'yomi (native Japanese) もちづき.
朢 is written with 14 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 朢 is 月 (moon), radical number 74 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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