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.

shū

This ‘pretty woman’ character hides an ancient a

A seven-stroke time capsule: 姒 encodes ancient Ch

shuò

This 6-stroke character hides a powerhouse: 妁 isn

shì

Born as a ritual platform towering over a human fi

shāng

This 'plowed earth' character hides a sacred secre

shú

Looks like ‘soil + ripe’ — but this character i

shuǎng

This rare character hides a 2,000-year-old landsca

shí

This 10-stroke character is a fossilized blueprint

sào

This 'dike' character isn’t abstract — it’s a 2

shān

This 9-stroke character captures the exact moment

shǎng

A rare, regionally rooted land unit whose name sou

shì

This 16-stroke mouth-on-tongue character originate

This character looks like three 'S' sounds drawn w

Born from ancient hands tearing silk, this 15-stro

sāi

This 'waste' character doesn’t exist in ancient s

sǒu

This character began as a bronze-age command to mo

A 'mouth' flanked by two 'completed cycles' — thi

shì

Born from mouth + ears, 嗜 captures addiction as t

sōu

Born from pure sound necessity — not ancient scri

suō

Born from folk speech — not ancient scripture —

A 13-stroke anatomical term shaped like a 'mouth l

shà

This 'hoarse' character hides a botanical secret:

sào

This 13-stroke character isn’t three birds — it

shǎ

This 11-stroke character hides a moral bomb: 口 +

shuā

Born in Qing-era storytelling, 唰 isn’t ancient

shěn

This 'smile' isn't warm — it's Confucius's raised

shēng

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

shǔn

This 7-stroke character began as a Bronze Age sket

sǒu

This 9-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

sān

This 'three' isn’t for counting — it’s a financ

This four-stroke glyph is ancient arithmetic in in

suǎn

A 2,300-year-old bamboo rice-washer preserved in i

shào

Though it looks like a simple 'force' character,

shàn

This 10-stroke character looks like a knife but na

sōng

This 'icicle' character hides a pine tree in its b

shēn

This rare 12-stroke character hides a Bronze Age s

shi2ke4

This 'character' has zero strokes — it's a modern

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a mythical beast —

A rare, elegant character where the number 'four'

sài

This character looks like a person peering at some