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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.
蕾 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (plant) carries the meaning, while 雷 indicates the sound.
Radical: 艹 + 13 more strokes
lěi蕾

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Open the tool →蕾 (lěi) means “Flower bud” in Chinese.
蕾 is pronounced lěi in Mandarin Chinese.
蕾 has 16 strokes.
蕾 is written in 16 strokes, starting from the radical 艹. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 蕾 is 艹, and 蕾 is a phono-semantic compound.