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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.
咛 is a phono-semantic compound: 口 (mouth) carries the meaning, while 宁 indicates the sound.
Radical: 口 + 5 more strokes
níng咛

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Open the tool →咛 (níng) means “Used in the compound '叮咛' (dīngníng), meaning to repeatedly advise or urge, often with care and concern” in Chinese.
咛 is pronounced níng in Mandarin Chinese.
咛 has 8 strokes.
咛 is written in 8 strokes, starting from the radical 口. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 咛 is 口, and 咛 is a phono-semantic compound.