Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
Animation shown for the standard form 螻, which 蝼 is a variant of.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 蝼 is filed under 虫 (insect) — radical number 142 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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蝼 means A Mole Cricket, Gryllotalpa Africana.
蝼 is written with 15 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 蝼 is 虫 (insect), radical number 142 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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