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Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.
哮 is a phono-semantic compound: 口 (mouth) carries the meaning, while 孝 indicates the sound.
Radical: 口 + 7 more strokes
xiào哮

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Open the tool →哮 (xiào) means “To roar” in Chinese.
哮 is pronounced xiào in Mandarin Chinese.
哮 has 10 strokes.
哮 is written in 10 strokes, starting from the radical 口. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 哮 is 口, and 哮 is a phono-semantic compound.