Chinese Characters Starting with "D 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.

diǎ

Born in 1920s Shanghai slang, this 'coy' character

Born in early 20th-century Shanghai, this 'machine

This 'character' doesn't exist — it's a digital g

dìng

This character was resurrected from near-obscurity

This 'zero-stroke' character isn't ancient—it's a

dàn

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

dǒu

This 'character' is a digital ghost — no ancient

This character doesn’t exist in Mandarin—it’s C

dié

This 9-stroke 'gnaw' character hides ancient teeth

dōng

This booming onomatopoeia has no ancient roots —

A 20th-century comic-book invention — not ancient

duō

This eight-stroke ‘tut!’ was born as a pictograp

呧 is not a Chinese character — it has zero strok

dāi

This 'Hey!' character was invented by Ming novelis

This 'zero-stroke' character isn’t strokeless —

dān

This rare, poetic character for 'exhausted' isn’t

This 12-stroke 'hook' character hides a bronze-age

duō

This 'prick' character vanished from daily speech

duò

This character’s left side 朵 (‘flower bud’) is

dāo

This isn’t a character—it’s Chinese writing’s

diāo

Only two strokes — yet it packs centuries of cult

dàng

This six-stroke character hides a poetic truth: it

dèng

This 'bench' character hides a climbing verb in it

diāo

Though it means 'withered,' 凋 isn’t about death

dān

This rare character isn’t just ‘carry’ — it’s

dāng

A rare literary 'stop' character — not the traffi

dèng

This character doesn’t come from ancient script

dǎi

This character doesn’t mean 'person' or 'peace'

diān

This character looks like a person toppling a pala

dòng

Though it looks like 'same person' (亻+同), 侗 isn

diàn

Looks like ‘person + field’ — and it is — but

dǎn

Born as a brimming grain vessel in bronze inscript

dòng

This 'bowl' character is actually a Japanese-modif

dǎng

This 'party' character began as a bronze-age image

diān

This character began as a climber's head on a moun

diāo

Though it looks like 'bird + circle', 雕 means 'to

dǒu

Its ancient form showed a person scaling a cliff w

dùn

Born from ancient bronze script showing metal resi

dīng

Originally a pictograph of a sturdy post, 钉 evolv

dǎi

This character’s 11 strokes literally depict chas