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.

máo

This 8-stroke character fuses 'ox' and 'hair' to i

sān

This 'long-haired' character hides a celestial sec

jiàn

A 12-stroke fusion of 'feathers' (毛) and 'to buil

shū

This 'rug' character is literally 'hair + curve'

mào

This 'restless' character was invented by Song sch

cuì

This 12-stroke character is literally three 'hair'

A rare, non-HSK character born from Tang-era Tibet

róng

A rare, elegant character born from ‘feather’ +

chán

Born as 'a rabbit comparing itself to others' in b

Though it looks like 'field + compare', 毗 is actu

This 'careful' isn’t casual — it’s Confucian-gr

This 'nurture' character isn't about teaching—it'

jiě

This 'mother' character isn’t for calling Mom—it

ǎi

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

This 'no' isn’t casual — it’s a bronze-age comm

duàn

This 'zero-stroke' character isn't missing strokes

yīn

This 10-stroke character began as a drum-beating p

jiān

This 7-stroke character fuses ‘corpse’ (歹) and

bìn

This character hides a profound Confucian paradox:

liàn

This character’s 11 strokes encode a 2,500-year-o

dān

This 'entirely' isn't cheerful — it's carved from

This 'extermination' character hides a corpse (歹)

yín

This 'remote' character doesn’t exist in oracle b

jìn

This character looks like 'death' (歹) plus 'advan

yǔn

This character’s ‘corpse’ radical (歹) isn’t d

dié

This rare character packs 'death' twice — two 歹

This 12-stroke 'death command' combines a corpse r

hūn

This character’s shape is a corpse (歹) watching

This 12-stroke ‘sickness’ character hides a coll

qíng

A literary ghost-word: visually built from 'death'

piǎo

Its final curved stroke (乚) visually mimics a sta

xùn

This character began as a kneeling servant beside

This character doesn’t mean ‘break’ — it means

dài

A 'death radical' paired with a 'platform' charact

tiǎn

This character’s right side (丏) originally depic

This 'death' character hides an altar under its co

This elegant 'death' character hides a whispering

This character looks like a death radical plus 'en

cān

A five-stroke femur bone pressed into service as a

chuò

This 14-stroke literary relic looks like liquid dr