Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
No stroke-order animation exists for this character — KanjiVG covers 6,702 kanji, and the rarer forms are not among them.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 笔 is filed under 竹 (bamboo) — radical number 118 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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笔 means Writing Brush, Write, Stroke.
笔 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) ひつ; kun'yomi (native Japanese) ふで.
笔 is written with 10 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 笔 is 竹 (bamboo), radical number 118 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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