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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.
俨 is a phono-semantic compound: 亻 (person) carries the meaning, while 严 indicates the sound.
Radical: 亻 + 7 more strokes
yǎn俨

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Open the tool →俨 (yǎn) means “To be respectful, solemn, dignified; to appear as if; neat and orderly. Often used in phrases like "yǎnrán" (俨然) to describe something as solemn, orderly, or strikingly similar to something else” in Chinese.
俨 is pronounced yǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
俨 has 9 strokes.
俨 is written in 9 strokes, starting from the radical 亻. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 俨 is 亻, and 俨 is a phono-semantic compound.