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.

xiù

Though it means 'cave,' 岫 never stands alone — i

xiè

This character’s elegant seal-script origin — wo

This 'slipper' character hides a profound cultural

This 'character' has zero strokes and zero existen

xiān

Its two crossing strokes aren’t random — they’r

A deceptively serene character — woman + valley

Born from ‘woman’ + ‘joy’, 嬉 isn’t just ‘to

This rare, poetic 'elder sister' character survive

xián

Born from 'leisure' and 'woman', 娴 transformed an

xuán

This 'beautiful' character hides a paradox: its 'm

xiè

This rare, morally charged character combines 'wom

婿

This 'son-in-law' character hides a Bronze Age all

xìng

A 'woman' radical paired with 'happiness' — but i

xiǎn

This character is a time capsule: a 3,000-year-old

A rare, reduplicated gem: 姁姁 isn’t chatter — i

This 'what?' character began as a pictograph of a

xūn

This character looks like a dignified scholar (士)

xūn

This 10-stroke character hides China’s oldest pla

This obscure character hides in plain sight on anc

xìn

This 6-stroke character began as a Bronze Age diag

This ‘character’ isn’t written—it’s folded, c

xiāo

Four mouths shouting inside a fifth mouth — this

This 'shh!' character hides a 2,200-year-old visua

A rare, poetic character born from ‘mouth + inhal

xùn

This character’s right side is 迅 (‘swift’) —

This 'laugh' isn’t a verb — it’s a mouth-shaped

xiāo

A 9-stroke mouth-character whose right side (肖) l

xiāo

This rare character isn’t just ‘boastful’ — it

This 'zero-stroke' character doesn’t exist in Man

An ancient pictograph of 'mouth + feathers' — not

It looks like 'sigh' but sounds like 'shee' — a 1

xiào

A mouth (口) shouting 'filial piety' (孝) — but t

xiū

This 'shoo!' character isn’t just sound — it’s

xuǎn

This 'character' has zero strokes and zero existen

xiāo

This rare character isn’t just 'shouting' — it’

xiā

Though it looks like 'mouth + armor', 呷 isn’t ab

This obscure character captures an ancient, tender

This 'zero-stroke' character (a myth—its strokes

This 'anxiety' character isn’t about your nerves

xiè

卨 has zero strokes — it's not a real Chinese cha