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.

This 17-stroke sound-effect character uses the 'ob

cēng

This 15-stroke mouth-shouting character doesn’t m

chuáng

A mouth plus biceps — this character doesn’t jus

chuài

This 'mouth + most' character visually screams 'ex

chī

This character looks like a mouth rejecting nonsen

chēn

This 'anger' character hides a Buddhist bomb: its

chì

This 'only' doesn’t stand alone — it’s a classi

chuò

This 11-stroke 'sip' character hides a Bronze Age

cuì

This 11-stroke character looks like a mouth slammi

chī

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

This 'scolding' character isn’t ancient — it’s

cùn

This 'inch' character wasn't inherited from antiqu

chì

This 5-stroke character hides a whip inside its 's

cuò

This character looks like a cliff sheltering effor

chán

This rare character looks like a Zen master but ca

chāo

This 'plagiarism' character began as a pictograph

chǎn

This 11-stroke character is a metallurgical master

cuò

A forgotten blade in Chinese script: 剒 isn’t jus

cuò

This ‘fracture’ character isn’t about breaking

cǔn

This 'zero-stroke' character—actually 5 strokes—

cāng

This 'cold' character isn’t about shivering — it

chàn

This 'irregular' character hides in plain sight: a

chèn

This rarely used character hides in Buddhist inscr

chái

This 8-stroke character looks like 'person + evenn

chóu

Though it looks like 'person + longevity,' 俦 isn

chù

儊 is not a real Chinese character — it’s a digi

chán

A rare, poetic character born in Han texts — its

chán

This character looks like 'a weak person' but mean

chì

This character looks like a person (亻) kneeling b

cāng

Born from 4th-century cultural snobbery, this 6-st

cāi

A rare literary gem: its ‘person + thought’ shap

A rare literary character whose very shape — a pe

chǒu

This character doesn’t exist — it’s a ghost gly

cuì

This 'deputy' character 倅 (cuì) has zero strokes

chāng

This six-stroke character depicts a human radical

chù

This rare character hides a ritual secret: its sha

chà

A 2,300-year-old 'I-speak' glyph — the only Chine

This rare, elegant character hides a warrior’s gr

A rare, razor-sharp classical character meaning 'p

chù

This three-stroke character encodes ancient ritual