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.

lián

This 7-stroke character hides a millennium of brid

wěng

This 'cloudless sky' character contains no cloud r

ào

This 12-stroke literary ghost — absent from all H

fěi

This 'big' character is actually two mirrored moun

This 'what?' character began as a pictograph of a

zàng

This 10-stroke character — rare, regional, and ra

Originally two giant eyes atop a 'big person,' 奕

zhà

This rare 9-stroke character visually enacts explo

This 'carve' character isn’t about knives—it’s

huàn

This 7-stroke character looks like a radiant perso

kuí

This character began as a stark pictograph of the

yān

This 8-stroke character looks deceptively simple

kuǎng

This six-stroke character hides a Bronze Age lands

This 6-stroke character began as a kneeling archer

hāng

A 5-stroke character that looks like a big person

yāo

This 4-stroke character began as an oracle bone pi

guài

This 4-stroke character—resembling a 'big' person

huǒ

Born as 'two people by a fire', it meant communal

yín

This 14-stroke character — with 夕 (evening) at i

yuàn

This 5-stroke character began as an oracle bone dr

kuí

This 21-stroke character began as a thunderous, on

náo

This ornate, unused character is a Bronze Age gibb

líng

This 8-stroke character began as a bronze-age draw

féng

This 7-stroke character started as a goat’s horns

zhǐ

This 3-stroke radical isn’t just ‘walk slowly’

kǔn

This 'palace corridor' character hides in plain si

壹 isn’t just 'one' — it’s a 12-stroke security

zhù

This 3,000-year-old drum character 壴 is never use

rén

This 'pillar' character — just four strokes — si

wān

This 'character' doesn't officially exist — it's

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a dug pit — now so

wěi

This 16-stroke ritual mound character appears only

This character isn’t ‘clay’—it’s a Tang dynas

kuàng

This six-stroke 'tomb' character isn’t just a gra

lěi

This 'rampart' character is built from three stack

ruán

This rare character hides a brilliant spatial conc

háo

This 'moat' character was born by grafting the 'he

dǎo

This 'column' isn’t decorative—it’s a cosmic lo

ài

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

This 17-stroke ‘gully’ character hides a Bronze