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. 皀 is filed under 白 (white) — radical number 106 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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皀 means Fragrant, Grain.
皀 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) きゅう、ひょく、きょう、こう.
皀 is written with 7 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 皀 is 白 (white), radical number 106 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.
皀 is built from 白 (white) and 匕 (spoon). 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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