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.

This 19-stroke rarity looks like ‘sharpness’ (利

liú

This six-stroke 'axe' character vanished from dail

This rare, elegant character fuses hand, sharpness

This 15-stroke character looks like a halberd (戈)

A 9-stroke knife (刂) slashing across 'order' (列)

lóu

A single character encoding ancient Chinese hydrau

lǐn

This 'cold' isn’t about temperature — it’s the

This character doesn’t officially exist — 凓 is

liè

This 'ice + line' character doesn’t just mean col

lín

This 'collapse' character was invented in 20th-cen

li2ke4

This 'character' has zero strokes — it’s not anc

lěi

This 'lazy' character isn’t about sloth — it’s

This 'husband and wife' character hides a deer-ant

lǒng

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

lǐn

This character looks like 'person + command'—beca

liáo

Its right side hides 'distant lands' (辽), reveali

This ‘disgrace’ character hides a courtroom dram

lu:3

This character’s 11 strokes physically mimic a hu

This character looks like 'person + village' — bu

liáng

俍 is a linguistic mirage — a nonexistent charact

lún

This 4-stroke character looks simple — but it’s

lǎo

This 'male-guy' suffix looks like 'old person' but

A 4-stroke ghost of ancient measurement — still h

lín

This character vanished from spoken Chinese over 2

This character looks like millet + fire + person

This 'fish' radical character has zero to do with

lòu

This 21-stroke raincloud character hides a linguis

This character began as a shorthand for ‘convict-

lóng

A thunderous classical character meaning 'prospero

líng

Though it looks like a simple 'mound,' 陵 is a sil

lòu

Looks like a hunched figure in a hillside shack —

láng

Born as 'a man of excellence stationed on a noble

liáo

This five-stroke character looks simple but carrie

lài

A 'shell-money' character (贝) with a 'knife' (刂)

lìn

This 10-stroke character began as a bronze-age con

Its left side is 贝 (ancient money), its right sid

liè

This ‘split’ character hides a textile trauma in

Though it means 'candle', 蜡’s insect radical rev

This 8-stroke character began as a tiger devouring

lěi

Though it looks like 'thunder + grass,' 蕾 isn’t