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.

屼

wù

This character is a fossilized poem: 山 + 兀 = a m

屺

qǐ

This six-stroke 'barren hill' appears in ancient p

屹

yì

Though it looks like 'mountain + beg', 屹 isn’t a

屴

lì

This character isn’t just ‘high mountain’ — it

屯

tún

Born as a pictograph of a sprout breaking through

屮

chè

This 3-stroke character isn’t a word you’ll spea

屪

liáo

This 'zero-stroke' myth is false — it has 8 strok

屩

juē

This 'zero-stroke' character (a playful lie—it ha

屦

jù

This 'sandals' character hides a kneeling person (

屧

xiè

This character’s elegant seal-script origin — wo

屣

xǐ

This 'slipper' character hides a profound cultural

屠

tú

Born as a bronze-age pictograph of a cleaver strik

屝

fèi

Born from a bronze-age image of a person sweeping

屙

ē

This 10-stroke character fuses 'corpse' and 'certa

屘

mǎn

A rare, tender kinship term born in southern diale

屖

xī

This 'character' has zero strokes and zero existen

屐

jī

This 10-stroke character hides a poetic engineerin

屎

shǐ

This character began as a Bronze Age doodle of a s

屌

diǎo

This 'corpse' radical character hides no corpse —

屇

tián

This 'cave' character vanished from daily use over

屄

bī

A brutally literal character: 尸 (a crouching body

尿

niào

This 'urine' character began as a pictograph of a

尼

ní

This five-stroke character looks like a crouching

尻

kāo

A 5-stroke pictograph born 3,000 years ago to show

尹

yǐn

Born as a pictograph of a hand holding a scepter o

尰

zhǒng

This archaic character for pathological swelling h

尪

wāng

This 'feeble' character hides a linguistic secret:

尨

máng

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a wind-tossed dog

尥

liào

This 6-stroke character looks like a horse’s defi

尢

wāng

This 3-stroke character is a Bronze Age medical di

尜

gá

This 9-stroke character looks like a tiny spinning

尙

shàng

This 'yet' isn't casual—it's a Confucian pause: a

尕

gǎ

A 5-stroke dialect gem from China’s Northwest —

尐

jié

This 3-stroke ghost character means 'few' — but h

尌

shù

This 'standing up' character isn't about posture

尉

wèi

This ‘officer’ character hides a ruler (寸) in i

尃

fū

This 10-stroke character looks like a hand holding

寰

huán

This ‘domain’ character isn’t earthly — it’s

寮

liáo

This 'Laos' character isn’t ancient — it’s a 20

寨

zhài

Its 'roof + net + tree' shape literally maps a tha