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. 皚 is filed under 白 (white) — radical number 106 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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皚 means White.
皚 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) がい、ぎ、げ、かい; kun'yomi (native Japanese) しろ.い、さむ.い.
皚 is written with 15 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 皚 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.
皚 is built from 白 (white) and 豈 (an interjection of surprise). 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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