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. 襾 is filed under 襾 (west) — radical number 146 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
Three quick games built from this character's real data. Your streak is kept in this browser.
Kanji Duel pits 襾 and 3,000 others head to head. One life. How long can you last?
襾 means Cover, Place On Top Of, West Radical Variant (no. 146).
襾 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) あ; kun'yomi (native Japanese) け.
襾 is written with 6 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 襾 is 襾 (west), radical number 146 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.
Signed in, we would remember every character you have looked at — and write you reading you can actually get through, built from exactly those.