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. 鑓 is filed under 金 (gold) — radical number 167 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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鑓 means Spear, Javelin, (kokuji).
鑓 is read kun'yomi (native Japanese) やり.
鑓 is written with 21 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 鑓 is 金 (gold), radical number 167 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.
鑓 is built from 金 (gold) and 遣 (dispatch). 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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