Chinese Characters Starting with "C 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.

chà

This six-stroke character is a hydrological GPS:

cuān

This 6-stroke water-radical character looks like a

chuān

Invented in the 1930s, 氚 is a scientific neologis

chǎng

Born from fur and radiance, 氅 isn’t just 'overco

cuì

This 12-stroke character is literally three 'hair'

chán

Born as 'a rabbit comparing itself to others' in b

This 'death' character hides an altar under its co

cān

A five-stroke femur bone pressed into service as a

chuò

This 14-stroke literary relic looks like liquid dr

chù

This 'angry' character hides a tiger in its left h

chǐ

欼 is not a Chinese character — it has zero strok

chuā

This 12-stroke character looks like a mouth spitti

chán

This rare character isn't just 'sandalwood' — it'

chèn

A botanical deep-cut: 榇 isn’t just any tree — i

chú

This 'wardrobe' character hides a kitchen origin—

chá

This 18-stroke tree-character hides a 60-million-y

chēng

This 'tamarisk' character hides a botanical secret

chēng

This 'prop' character isn’t casual—it’s the hea

chěng

This 'pillar' character isn’t about grand columns

chū

This 15-stroke 'bitter tree' character hides Zhuan

chī

A 14-stroke botanical rarity: 樆 names just one tr

cōng

Though it looks like it means 'following a tree',

cáo

This 'trough' character hides a Bronze Age bluepri

chá

This 'raft' character hides a cosmic secret: in an

chuí

This ‘mallet’ character hides a philosophical se

cuī

This 'rafter' character hides a mountain in its st

chǔ

This 'master tree' (木+主) isn’t just any mulberr

chá

This 13-stroke character isn’t just ‘cut’ — it

椿

chūn

Though it looks like 'spring tree', 椿 is actually

chuán

This 'rafter' character hides a rhythmic secret: i

chóu

Its right side 周 means 'encircling' — and true t

chuí

This 'wooden cudgel' character looks like 'who' bu

cuò

This obscure character hides a 2,300-year-old bota

chéng

This 8-stroke character hides a carpenter’s secre

chān

This 'length' character vanished from spoken Chine

chén

Looks like 'wood + stretch' — and it is: every st

chǒu

This six-stroke character looks like a minimalist

chǒu

This 'handcuff' character is carved from wood — l

chǔ

Its lower part looks like 古 (‘ancient’), but it

This 3,200-year-old pictograph shows a tree sprout