Chinese Characters Starting with "B start"

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 river-name character hides a sonic secret: it

biàn

This 7-stroke river name hides a phonetic fossil:

biàn

A river so ancient it vanished from the land—and

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

bìn

This character hides a profound Confucian paradox:

This ultra-rare character survives unchanged for 2

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a horn-mounted ox y

bēi

A scientifically crafted character — born not fro

This 'stockade' character hides a bee in its wood

bāng

This 10-stroke character isn’t just ‘wood’ + ‘

This 11-stroke character is a rare, unchanging fos

bīng

A rare, hyper-specific botanical character — inve

A rare, precise character encoding ancient Chinese

bǎi

Though it looks like 'white tree,' 柏 is actually

bǐng

This 'handle' character hides a royal secret: in a

Though obscure today, 杷 began as a vivid pictogra

biāo

This seven-stroke character isn’t just ‘spoon ha

This 'tree' is actually a wooden rake — its shape

This '3–5 p.m.' character isn’t just a time slot

bǐng

This 'bright' character hides a secret: it’s buil

biàn

This 'bright' character isn't about light bulbs or

bǎn

This 'great' isn’t about size — it’s the sacred

bān

This rare literary character — appearing only in

This 'die' character hides a battlefield secret: i

This 'my' isn’t possessive — it’s a linguistic

bìn

Born from 'guest' but weaponized by 'hand,' this c

This 17-stroke 'thumb' character once depicted a h

biāo

This character began as a hand flicking a banner—

bìng

This 'discard' character hides a breath-holding se

bàng

This 'row' character hides bamboo oars in its stro

bīng

This character is a frozen snapshot of ancient Chi

bǎi

This character looks like a hand (扌) splitting ‘

This character has zero strokes, zero historical a

This 'eight' isn't for counting — it's a 2,000-ye

bǐng

This 'handle' doesn’t grip mugs—it grips power:

biàn

This 7-stroke character hides a Warring States-era

bān

This 7-stroke character hides ancient bronze-age e

This 12-stroke character hides a moral earthquake:

This rare character hides a walled-in heart — its

bèi

A 10-stroke heart-radical character whose very sha