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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.
剌 is a phono-semantic compound: 刂 (knife) carries the meaning, while 束 indicates the sound.
Radical: 刂 + 7 more strokes
là剌
lá剌

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Open the tool →剌 (là) means “Contrary to common sense or reason; perverse; absurd” in Chinese.
剌 has 2 pronunciations: là, lá.
剌 has 9 strokes.
剌 is written in 9 strokes, starting from the radical 刂. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 剌 is 刂, and 剌 is a phono-semantic compound.