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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.
涛 is a phono-semantic compound: 氵 (water) carries the meaning, while 寿 indicates the sound.
Radical: 氵 + 7 more strokes
tāo涛

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Open the tool →涛 (tāo) means “Big waves” in Chinese.
涛 is pronounced tāo in Mandarin Chinese.
涛 has 10 strokes.
涛 is written in 10 strokes, starting from the radical 氵. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 涛 is 氵, and 涛 is a phono-semantic compound.