Chinese Characters Starting with "X 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.

汛

xùn

Though it looks like 'instruction' (训), 汛 is all

汐

xī

This six-stroke character is a celestial clock: it

氥

xī

This character was invented in 1933 — no ancient

氙

xiān

A 20th-century scientific neologism — no ancient

殉

xùn

This character began as a kneeling servant beside

殈

xù

This character doesn’t mean ‘break’ — it means

歔

xū

This 16-stroke character hides ancient grief in it

歊

xiāo

This rare, heat-charged character looks like 'high

歆

xīn

This ‘pleased’ isn’t yours — it’s the ancesto

欷

xī

This 'sob' character hides in plain sight: its rig

欨

xū

This rare character isn’t just ‘to blow’—it’s

欀

xiāng

This ultra-rare character is a 2,300-year-old 'cro

櫹

xiāo

This towering 'tree' character hides a poetic secr

檄

xí

This 'dispatch' isn’t bureaucratic — it’s a woo

橁

xún

A botanical precision bomb: built from ‘tree’ +

樨

xī

This 16-stroke character hides no hidden meaning—

槢

xí

A forgotten hardwood character whose 'X'-shaped ri

榭

xiè

This 'pavilion' character hides an archery lesson:

楦

xuàn

This 'blocking' character doesn’t obstruct — it

楔

xiē

This 'wedge' character hides a warrior’s glyph (

枭

xiāo

This ‘owl’ character isn’t about birds — it’s

栩

xǔ

This 'oak' character hides a butterfly dream: its

栒

xún

This 'cross bar' character hides in plain sight: i

柙

xiá

This 'cage' isn't metal or wire — it's a heavy ti

枵

xiāo

A 'wood' radical cradling a 'mouth' — not for spe

枲

xǐ

This 'male hemp' character hides a 3,000-year-old

杴

xiān

This 'shovel' character hides no pictograph—it’s

杏

xìng

This 'apricot' character hides a split fruit: 十+

曦

xī

This 20-stroke ‘sunlight’ character isn’t drawn

曛

xūn

This 18-stroke character fuses 'sun' and 'smoke' t

暹

xiān

This 'sunrise' character vanished from everyday sp

暶

xuán

This 'character' is a linguistic mirage: pronounce

暇

xiá

Its 13 strokes hide a bureaucratic origin: ancient

晞

xī

This character fuses ‘sun’ and ‘rare’ to name

晑

xiǎng

This 'bright' isn't gentle daylight — it's the su

晅

xuān

A rare, lyrical character born from 'sun' + 'procl

昫

xù

This elegant 9-stroke character hides a secret: it

昡

xuàn

This character looks like a sun melting under its

昕

xīn

A poetic, rarely spoken character for the hushed m

旴

xū

This rare, poetic character isn’t just 'dawn' —