Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Animation shown for the standard form 畭, which 畬 is a variant of.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 畬 is filed under 田 (field) — radical number 102 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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畬 means Reclaimed Field.
畬 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) よ; kun'yomi (native Japanese) あらた.
畬 is written with 12 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 畬 is 田 (field), radical number 102 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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