Chinese Characters Starting with "S 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.

shù

This character looks like water + 'art', but it’s

This six-stroke character encodes an ancient hydro

shàn

This six-stroke character began as a Bronze Age sk

shuǐ

This 'water radical' isn’t a word — it’s a 3,00

shēn

A 20th-century invention with ancient lightning in

sào

A literary ghost-word born from 'water + ruffled f

sān

This 'long-haired' character hides a celestial sec

shū

This 'rug' character is literally 'hair + curve'

shà

This 'drink' character doesn’t mean quenching thi

shuò

This 11-stroke 'suck' character hides a lunar glyp

shē

A phonetic loan character invented in Qing-era Tai

shū

This 17-stroke 'axle-hole' character was measured

This rare, literary character looks like a tree st

shā

This rare tree-character hides a 2,000-year-old me

shū

Ancient Chinese didn't draw a hinge — they carved

This 'solemn wood' character hides a bronze-age pi

This obscure character — absent from HSK, diction

sēn

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

shuò

This 14-stroke 'long lance' character hides a poet

sǔn

This 'wood + complete' character embodies China’s

This ultra-rare character has zero strokes missing

shǔn

Despite looking like 'shield' (盾), 楯 (shǔn) mea

suō

This 'wood' radical character doesn’t mean 'wood'

suō

Though it looks like a ‘rope tree,’ 桫 isn’t ab

shuān

This 'bottle stopper' is actually a 2,000-year-old

This ‘spoon’ isn’t for soup — it’s a 3,000-ye

shū

This ‘kill’ character vanished from speech 2,000

shān

Though it looks like 'wood + decoration,' 杉 isn't

shuò

Originally a bronze-age pictograph of the invisibl

shǔ

This 17-stroke 'dawn' character hides a phonetic t

shèng

A 10-stroke solar crown: 日 (sun) literally sits a

shǎng

This character isn’t just ‘part of the day’ —

shāo

A six-stroke character that’s not in HSK, yet enc

shū

This 'set forth' character isn’t about speaking—

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

sòu

This 16-stroke character looks like a hand rhythmi

shū

This elegant, rarely used character for 'dice' hid

shàn

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

sǎng

This character looks like a hand grabbing a loud '

shuò

This 13-stroke rarity looks like a hand shoving in