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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.
廖 is an ideographic compound. The wind 翏 blowing over a vast, empty plain 广.
Radical: 广 + 11 more strokes
liào廖

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Open the tool →廖 (liào) means “surname” in Chinese.
廖 is pronounced liào in Mandarin Chinese.
廖 has 14 strokes.
廖 is written in 14 strokes, starting from the radical 广. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 廖 is 广, and 廖 is an ideographic compound.