Chinese Characters Starting with "ALL"

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

nuò

This 'holding' character isn’t about grasping —

miè

This rarely taught character hides a surgical-leve

jìn

This 'shake' character isn’t casual—it’s a ritu

sǎng

This character looks like a hand grabbing a loud '

shuò

This 13-stroke rarity looks like a hand shoving in

jiān

This 13-stroke character isn’t just ‘pick up’

zhī

This 'prop-up' character hides a literal branch in

This 'strike' character vanished from daily use —

sāo

Its right side 臊 originally meant 'foul odor' —

bàng

This 'row' character hides bamboo oars in its stro

chù

This character’s right side hides a pig in a fiel

sūn

This 'hand-rubbing' character hides a phonetic tri

zhǎn

This ‘sop up’ character hides a poetic paradox:

chuāi

This 13-stroke character hides a culinary secret:

chōu

This 'pluck' character hides a coiled spring in it

què

A 'sparrow' (雀) + 'hand' (扌) that means 'consult

wēi

This rare character hides a 3,000-year-old image o

zhā

This 12-stroke character hides a 'fork' inside its

This 'gesticulate' character hides a phonetic pran

qián

This 'carry' character doesn’t lift boxes — it b

xiē

This character’s right side 契 originally meant '

shé

This 12-stroke character encodes an exact 2,500-ye

chòng

This character doesn’t exist—it’s a linguistic

jiū

This 'gathering' character hides a secret: its 'au

jiū

Its right side looks like 'autumn' — but 揪 isn’

kāi

This 'wipe' character hides a phonetic disguise: i

This rare character looks like a hand forcing out

chuāi

This 12-stroke character looks like a hand tucking

This character looks like a hand yanking a plant

ǎn

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

zuàn

A deliberately invented character — not ancient,

yǎn

This character is the ancient, heavy-duty version

shǔn

This rare, elegant character—pronounced shǔn—de

This 12-stroke bow is a frozen moment of Confucian

zhèn

This rare, literary 'stab' character hides Qin dyn

shì

This 'character' has zero strokes, zero historical

xuān

This 12-stroke character visually mimics a hand gr

sāi

This 'shake' character isn’t ancient — it’s a M

kuí

This character began as a bronze-age plumb line—a

yán

A scholarly ghost of 研 — identical in sound and