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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.
椒 is a phono-semantic compound: 木 (tree) carries the meaning, while 叔 indicates the sound.
Radical: 木 + 8 more strokes
jiāo椒

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Open the tool →椒 (jiāo) means “Sichuan pepper (the plant or its fruit), commonly used as a spice or seasoning; can also refer to pepper in general” in Chinese.
椒 is pronounced jiāo in Mandarin Chinese.
椒 has 12 strokes.
椒 is written in 12 strokes, starting from the radical 木. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 椒 is 木, and 椒 is a phono-semantic compound.