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.

xiāo

This ‘night’ character hides a rooftop full of s

xián

This 'dislike' character hides a woman holding two

This ‘daughter-in-law’ character hides a silent

This 'ruins' character hides a secret double life:

xiào

This character looks like 'mouth + few' — because

xiù

This 'smell' character hides a phonetic secret: it

xuān

This character began as a royal proclamation on a

This six-stroke character began as a pictograph of

xiè

Born as a kneeling warrior removing armor, 卸 stil

xié

Its 'ten' radical isn’t about numbers — it’s tw

xiāo

This character looks like a knife (刂) next to 'Xi

xíng

Originally a pictograph of a knife branding a knee

xiōng

This 4-stroke character began as a pictograph of a

xiá

This 8-stroke character began as 'thorny person'

xiān

Born as a person atop a mountain, 仙 evolved from

xiǎn

Born from ancient sunlit rituals, 显 doesn’t just

xiàng

This 'neck' character evolved into Mandarin’s go-

xióng

Originally a phonosemantic character meaning 'domi

xiàn

Originally a hill-and-river boundary marker in bro

xián

This 'leisure' character began as a barred gate —

xiāo

Though it means 'to melt,' 销 isn’t for ice or ch

xiāng

Originally two people bowing face-to-face in oracl

xùn

Born from a flying bird glyph, 迅 doesn’t just me

xún

Born from ancient ritual consultation, 询 looks li

xùn

Though only 5 strokes, 训 packs 3,000 years of Con

xuè

It began as a ritual bronze bowl holding three sac

Its tiger-head radical warns that emptiness isn’t

xié

This character began as a Bronze Age drawing of ha

xiōng

This character literally means 'chest'—but in Chi

xiàn

This ‘county’ character began as a rope hanging

Born from ancient silk-making — where 'finding th

xiā

This 'blind' character doesn’t show a broken eye

xiàn

A dog under a hand offering sacrifice — this 3,00

xiē

This ‘rest’ character hides a gasping mouth (欠)

xīn

This 'happy' character contains the 'yawning mouth

Born as an axe chopping wood, 析 evolved into Chin

xún

This 'ten-day period' character began as a sun wit

xié

This 'inclined' character began as a tilted ladle

Born from a hand arranging bamboo slips, 叙 isn’t

xiāng

This 'box' isn’t for packing—it’s a stone-and-w