Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Animation shown for the standard form 炮, which 礮 is a variant of.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 礮 is filed under 石 (stone) — radical number 112 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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礮 means Ancient Ballista For Throwing Heavy Stones A Cannon, A Gun.
礮 is written with 21 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 礮 is 石 (stone), radical number 112 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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