Chinese Characters Starting with "K 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 11-stroke character has zero ancient history

kǎn

This rare character looks like a sigh carved in in

欿

kǎn

This 3,000-year-old character visually enacts a hu

kuǎn

This elegant variant 欵 isn't outdated — it's cal

kài

This 'cough' character hides a dramatic ancient me

kāng

This 15-stroke character is a silent architect —

This rare character names a medicinal vine—and hi

Looks like 'ancient wood' — but 楛 isn’t aged gr

kǔn

This character looks like 'wood + trapped'—but it

kǎo

A rare botanical character where the 'elder' (考)

Its ancient form showed a carpenter carving wood

kuí

This character’s 13 strokes hide a cosmic drama:

kūn

This 'descendant' character hides a kneeling ances

kuài

This rare character hides a battlefield secret: it

kōu

This 7-stroke character looks like a hand gripping

This 'strike' character vanished from daily use —

kāi

This 'wipe' character hides a phonetic disguise: i

kuí

This character began as a bronze-age plumb line—a

kèn

This rare, literary character looks like 'hand + n

kǎo

This character literally means 'to beat into confe

kuí

This character looks like a minimalist lance carve

kān

This 'kill' character isn't about murder — it's t

kuì

This 12-stroke character hides a startling truth:

kài

This 7-stroke character hides an ancient armored w

kǎi

Originally a heart beside a ceremonial wine jar li

kài

This 'desire' character hides a sacred wine vessel

kōng

Looks like 'empty' (空) with a heart radical — bu

kuī

A 10-stroke 'heart-box' character that doesn’t me

kǔn

Looks like 'heart trapped in a box' — but that ca

This 'respectful' character hides a Bronze Age pil

kuāng

This 'fear' character doesn’t show wide eyes or r

kuài

This 'barn' isn’t rustic — it’s a fortified, bu

岿

kuī

This 8-stroke mountain radical character doesn’t

This character was invented solely to name one mou

kōng

This character isn’t ‘empty’ — it’s the sacre

This 'cave' character is so rare and poetic that m

kāo

A 5-stroke pictograph born 3,000 years ago to show

kòu

This 11-stroke character hides a Bronze Age alarm

kuā

A rare, exquisitely weighted word — not 'beautifu

kuí

This character began as a stark pictograph of the