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. 殀 is filed under 歹 (death) — radical number 78 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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殀 means Dying Young.
殀 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) よう; kun'yomi (native Japanese) わかじに.
殀 is written with 8 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 殀 is 歹 (death), radical number 78 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.
殀 is built from 歹 (bare bone) and 夭 (early death). 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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