Chinese Characters Starting with "W 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.

wán

A character shaped like a bouncing ball (丸) atop

This character fuses 'speech' and 'shaman' — reve

wěi

A grass radical atop 'a woman collapsing under wei

wěi

This 'latitude' character began as a weaving term

wén

This character began as a drawing of silk threads

wěn

This 'involved' character isn’t about participati

This 'nest' character hides a fruit inside its cav

wèi

This ‘fear’ character hides a kneeling person be

This 4-stroke character began as a clay mold in or

This ‘crow’ character originally had no eyes —

wān

This 'bay' character hides a bowstring in its bone

Originally a bronze-age glyph of water nurturing a

wǎng

This 'twisting' character hides a carpenter’s war

A 'meeting' so intentional it needs sunlight (日)

wàng

Though it looks like 'sun + king', 旺 was never ab

wǎn

This 'pull' character began as a hand gripping a r

This character began as a hand plunging into a cav

wǎn

This character’s right side (宛) once depicted a

This 'aha!' character hides a self-referential sec

A 'baby' character built from 'woman' and 'roof ti

wàng

This 'absurd' character began as a warning about w

Born in Ming dynasty novels as a rebellious, mouth

wěi

Originally 'a person adding a fake tail,' 伪 evolv

Its ‘every’ component (每) reveals the chilling

Born 3,000 years ago as a bronze-age battle format

wáng

Its three strokes began as a kneeling, defeated pe

wán

This 3-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

It’s not just fog — it’s rain from heaven meeti

wéi

Its ancient form showed 'guarding' — but today it

wèi

Born from 'speech + stomach', 谓 never meant casua

This character began as a pictograph of a person l

wèi

This 'stomach' character began as a bronze-age pou

wéi

Born from silk threads and a bird’s silhouette, t

wěn

Though it looks like 'grain + urgent', 稳 was born

wáng

This ‘king’ character began as a ritual axe — t

wāi

Born from a wobbling ancient figure, 歪 isn’t jus

Originally a foot marching forward with a spear —

wèi

This 'not yet' character began as a treetop — and

Its right side isn’t random—it’s the character

wèi

This 'comfort' character hides an ancient military