Chinese Characters Starting with "T 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.

tián

This ‘turbulent’ character hides a flooded rice

tuó

This character looks like water — but it doesn’t

tuō

This 'drop' character isn’t about gravity — it’

tīng

A five-stroke masterpiece: three water drops + a n

tǔn

This six-stroke 'person-on-water' character isn’t

tiǎn

This character’s right side (丏) originally depic

táo

This 'dunce' character isn’t about low IQ — it’

tán

Though it looks like 'wood + explosion', 檀 actual

tuó

This 16-stroke 'sack' character hides a Daoist cos

Looks like 'wood + spread-out cloth' — and it is:

tán

A rare, region-specific character born from Guangd

tíng

This 'tree' character is a living fossil — visual

táng

This 'cherry-apple' character hides a 3,000-year-o

tǐng

Its top half 廷 sounds like 'ting' and hints at 'c

tīng

Born from a fusion of 'wood' and 'pavilion,' 桯 is

tóng

This 'tree' character hides a musical secret: its

tuò

This 9-stroke character isn’t just ‘wood + tap’

tuó

Though it looks like 'it' with wood attached, 柁 i

tíng

This 'bump' character hides in plain sight: 木 +

tóng

This rare, poetic character captures *only* the fr

tiǎo

This rare, poetic character encodes ancient China

tóng

This character fuses 'sun' and 'child' — not to m

tán

This character hides an upside-down sun beneath cl

tūn

A 16-stroke literary gem meaning 'sun at the horiz

tiǎn

A rare, elegant character born from 'sun' + 'sacre

tūn

A Song-dynasty poetic invention — not ancient, no

tiǎo

This 'exchange' character vanished from speech ove

tái

This rare character is a phonetic fossil: ‘來’ (

This 17-stroke character hides a pheasant in its r

Though it looks like a simple hand-strike characte

tuǒ

撱 doesn't exist — it's a digital ghost born from

tuán

This 7-stroke character hides a 2,500-year-old ima

táng

This ‘hand-in-hall’ character doesn’t block —

Born from Tang dynasty stone-rubbing workshops, 搭

This rare character looks like a hand forcing out

tiàn

This 11-stroke character looks like a hand tiptoei

tǒng

Born from a 'tube' and a 'hand,' this 10-stroke ch

tuán

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

tòng

This character’s nine strokes visually mimic a pe

A 14-stroke literary fossil meaning 'evil thought'