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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.
堪 is an ideographic compound. One with a considerable amount 甚 of land 土.
Radical: 土 + 9 more strokes
kān堪

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Open the tool →堪 (kān) means “To be able to” in Chinese.
堪 is pronounced kān in Mandarin Chinese.
堪 has 12 strokes.
堪 is written in 12 strokes, starting from the radical 土. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 堪 is 土, and 堪 is an ideographic compound.