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. 襷 is filed under 衣 (clothes) — radical number 145 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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襷 means Cord To Hold Up Sleeves, (kokuji).
襷 is read kun'yomi (native Japanese) たすき.
襷 is written with 22 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 襷 is 衣 (clothes), radical number 145 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.
襷 is built from 衤 (clothes) and 擧 (raise). 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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