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.

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

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

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

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

tún

Born as a pictograph of a sprout breaking through

chè

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

liáo

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

juē

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

This 'sandals' character hides a kneeling person (

xiè

This character’s elegant seal-script origin — wo

This 'slipper' character hides a profound cultural

Born as a bronze-age pictograph of a cleaver strik

fèi

Born from a bronze-age image of a person sweeping

ē

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

mǎn

A rare, tender kinship term born in southern diale

This 'character' has zero strokes and zero existen

This 10-stroke character hides a poetic engineerin

shǐ

This character began as a Bronze Age doodle of a s

diǎo

This 'corpse' radical character hides no corpse —

tián

This 'cave' character vanished from daily use over

A brutally literal character: 尸 (a crouching body

尿

niào

This 'urine' character began as a pictograph of a

This five-stroke character looks like a crouching

kāo

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

yǐn

Born as a pictograph of a hand holding a scepter o

zhǒng

This archaic character for pathological swelling h

wāng

This 'feeble' character hides a linguistic secret:

máng

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

liào

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

wāng

This 3-stroke character is a Bronze Age medical di

This 9-stroke character looks like a tiny spinning

shàng

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

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

jié

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

shù

This 'standing up' character isn't about posture

wèi

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

This 10-stroke character looks like a hand holding

huán

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

liáo

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

zhài

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