Chinese Characters Starting with "A start"

Every character has an origin. Discover the pictographs, myths, and history behind each Chinese character — with pinyin, stroke order, HSK level, and audio pronunciation.

ān

Invented in 1871 as a phonetic transplant for 'amm

ǎi

This character looks like 'person + hand' — but t

āi

This 11-stroke interjection looks like a sighing m

ān

This 'eucalyptus' character didn’t exist in ancie

àng

This ‘horse-tethering post’ character hides a br

ái

This 'character' is a digital ghost — no ancient

áo

This character looks like a hand striking an arrog

ǎn

This 'apply' character isn’t about spreading—it

ǎo

Looks like a hand grabbing 'young' — but it's all

ào

Its right side 奧 means 'profound' — so 懊 litera

áo

This 'granary' character hides a phonetic secret:

ān

Though it means 'hut,' 庵 isn’t for peasants — i

ào

This 7-stroke mountain-basin character hides in th

áo

This 13-stroke mountain character hides a secret:

ǎo

Though it means 'old woman,' 媪 appears in ancient

āi

A dialect-only 'granny' character born from folk l

ào

This 12-stroke literary ghost — absent from all H

ài

This character isn’t about flying dust — it’s t

ào

This obscure character hides a bureaucratic heartb

ǎn

This 11-stroke character hides a 1,200-year-old fa

āi

This 'dust' character hides a cosmic secret: its t

ào

This ‘hollow’ character hides a visual secret: i

ǎi

This 'belch' character hides an ancient rebel: its

ái

A 'mouth + love' character that ironically means '

áo

This mouth-shaped scream (口) married to a dancing

ài

This character looks like a mouth (口) strangled b

án

This 'speaking' character isn't a verb—it's a whi

ǎn

This 11-stroke character was invented in Tang Chin

ài

This rare character hides a veiled person in its s

ǎn

Born in Ming-dynasty folk speech, 俺 isn’t ancien

ài

Originally a Bronze Age image of water blocked by

ǎi

Born as a pictograph of misty vines, 蔼 captures C

ái

Born in early 20th-century medical translation, 癌

ài

This 'dim' character hides a lost heart — its rig

áng

Though it means 'to lift,' 昂's radical is 日—the

āi

Born from a hand guiding a bending figure, this 10

ào

This 'Austria' character began as a Bronze Age pic

āi

This 'sorrow' character hides a royal ancestor —

āo

This 5-stroke character is one of Chinese writing

ài

A stone (石) + phonetic 'love' (爱) creates a char