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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.
祀 is a phono-semantic compound: 礻 (spirit) carries the meaning, while 巳 indicates the sound.
Radical: 礻 + 3 more strokes
sì祀

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Open the tool →祀 (sì) means “In ancient China” in Chinese.
祀 is pronounced sì in Mandarin Chinese.
祀 has 7 strokes.
祀 is written in 7 strokes, starting from the radical 礻. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 祀 is 礻, and 祀 is a phono-semantic compound.