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.

dàn

This 'eat' character hides a tiger in its mouth an

táo

This character looks like 'mouth + flee' — becaus

cuì

This 11-stroke character looks like a mouth slammi

This rare character hides a vivid ancient duel: tw

tūn

This 'slow-motion' character originated as a poeti

zhào

This character looks like 'mouth + lofty' — but i

zhuó

Its 11 strokes mimic the staccato *tok-tok-tok* of

zhōu

This 11-stroke character hides a sonic secret: its

This 11-stroke character hides a sonic secret: its

shǎ

This 11-stroke character hides a moral bomb: 口 +

This character doesn’t exist — no ancient inscri

Born not from ancient bronzes but from Ming-era st

jiè

This rare sigh-character hides a literary secret:

ǎn

This 11-stroke character was invented in Tang Chin

This 11-stroke character fuses 'mouth' and 'elegan

ér

Born in Qing fiction, 唲 isn’t just 'laugh' — it

shuā

Born in Qing-era storytelling, 唰 isn’t ancient

This 'tiger roar' character never describes real t

jìn

A mouth (口) locked by metal (金): this 11-stroke

fěng

This 'recite' character hides wind in its bones —

Born in Ming fiction, not ancient bronzes — this

dǒu

This 'character' is a digital ghost — no ancient

qìn

Its 7-stroke mouth radical hides three ancient zig

This 'oh!' character was invented backwards: scrib

zuò

A 20th-century scientific neologism with no ancien

It looks like 'sigh' but sounds like 'shee' — a 1

This 'sound' character isn't about meaning — it's

jiá

A modern-made character that looks like 'mouth + c

This rare literary character isn’t about heartbea

hán

This 10-stroke ritual character — nearly extinct

bài

This 7-stroke mouth-character doesn’t mean 'chant

This 'bird-call' character isn't pictorial — it's

yàn

This character’s two mouths facing each other in

This 3,000-year-old 'exclamation of excellence' be

gěng

This character looks like 'mouth + change' — and

xiào

A mouth (口) shouting 'filial piety' (孝) — but t

哫 is a linguistic ghost — no ancient roots, no m

A 20th-century phonetic Frankenstein: 口 + 里 was

chī

This 'giggle' character isn't about joy — it's a

máng

哤 isn't a real Chinese character — it's an inter