This time, we are going to study 3 hiraganas with "の" as a part of the letter. 

At first, just review の.


Now we'll have 1 stroke before writing "の-like" line, then it will be...
   
め【me】

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ぬ【mu】

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あ【a】

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Have a look at the origin of 3 Hiraganas. All of them have 女. Now we can undestand why these 3 letters have common stroke.

  

Now, why don't you study the Kanji, 女?

女【onna】

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Sometimes this Kanji is read as め. That's why it is origin of め.

The shape came from a woman kneel down with her hands on her lap. 

When you see the origin of Hiragana め, you wont confuse the stroke anymore.

Japamese memorise this stroke order as くノ一（ku-no-ichi）

I'm pretty sure that you are expecting to learn the Kanji means man.
Here we go.


男【otoko】

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You've learned the 2 parts for the Kanji, 男 in the previous lessons.

田 means rice field

and

   
力 means power.

So the concept of 男 is a man who use his power to work at a rice field.