Chinese Characters Starting with "L 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.

liáo

嫽 is not a real Chinese character — it's a digit

lào

A 14-stroke rarity: 女 + 叟 depicts a woman bearin

This 'widow' character hides a 'black dawn' — its

lóu

This 'woman' radical (女) is a phonetic impostor

líng

A graceful, forgotten word for intelligence — bui

lián

This 7-stroke character hides a millennium of brid

líng

This 8-stroke character began as a bronze-age draw

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a dug pit — now so

This character isn’t ‘clay’—it’s a Tang dynas

lěi

This 'rampart' character is built from three stack

lǎng

A 'raised bank' character so rare it’s virtually

léng

This 12-stroke character looks like stacked earth

líng

A rare, poetic 'mound' character whose very shape

liè

This 'equal' character isn’t abstract — it’s li

làng

This 'wasteland' character hides a phonetic prank:

lu:4

This character looks like 'earth + swelling' — an

líng

This 'cliff' character hides a thunderbolt in its

This 8-stroke character is a rare, tactile word fo

luán

This 'round' character isn't drawn with a compass

luo

This 'character' has zero strokes—not as a Zen ko

This 7-stroke character isn’t just ‘a sound’ —

Born in Ming-Qing street talk, not ancient bronzes

lei

Born in Ming-era street talk — not ancient bronze

lóu

Born from Ming dynasty bandit novels, 喽 (lóu) is

lián

It’s not a character — it’s a digital ghost: no

喱 isn't a real Chinese character — it's a digita

liǎng

A 20th-century Frankenstein character: 口 (mouth)

This 11-stroke character fuses 'mouth' and 'elegan

This 'sound' character isn't about meaning — it's

A 20th-century phonetic Frankenstein: 口 + 里 was

lòng

A dragon’s roar trapped in a mouth: this rare, vi

lǎo

This 9-stroke mouth-character isn’t ‘old’—it’

luò

This 'mouth + each' character visually enacts phle

liě

This mouth-splitting character looks like 'mouth +

lu:3

This 'double mouth' character isn’t about speakin

This six-stroke character hides a bronze-age scrib

luǎn

This 'egg' character hides a kneeling official (卩

This character looks like 'strength + captive'—bu

This character began as a leather halter tightenin

liè

This six-stroke character packs three 'force' radi