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.

This 'mat' character evolved from ancient woven pi

xún

This ‘search’ character began as a taut measurin

xuān

Originally a pictograph of official speech echoing

This three-stroke character began as a pictograph

xíng

Born in ancient bronze foundries as a clay mold,

xiǎng

Born as an altar pictograph 3,200 years ago, 享 st

xíng

Born as a decorated human figure in oracle bone sc

xié

This 'page' character began as a Bronze Age portra

xiǎn

Though it means 'danger,' 险 began as a drawing of

xǐng

This character began as 'sobering up from wine' —

xīn

This 7-stroke character began as a double-bladed e

xiàng

This 'elephant' character secretly birthed the ent

xiáng

Born from ritual speech and sheep symbolism, 详 ev

This 'allow' character hides a noon hour in its co

xiàn

Originally a pictograph of a person gazing up at a

xiū

This 'shy' character began as a ritual offering of

Born from ancient silk-splicing, this character tu

Born as a pictograph of twisted silk threads, 细 e

xiù

Originally a pictograph of ripe, bowing grain — t

xiāo

Born from water and 'little', 消 isn’t about dest

xiàng

Though it looks like 'elephant + tree', 橡 has not

Its right side 昔 means 'yesterday' — so 惜 liter

This 'know-it-all' character isn't arrogant — it'

This ‘sequence’ character hides a roof (广) — b

xián

This 'all' character hides a halberd in its roof—

Its ancient form shows a mouth pulling air like a

xié

This sleek 5-stroke character looks like a leaf —

xiào

This 'effect' character hides a hand holding a sti

xìng

This character began as a drawing of shackled ankl

xiū

This character began as a hand decorating ritual b

线

xiàn

This 'thread' character once depicted hand-twisted

xìng

Originally a philosophical term for 'innate moral

xiān

A 3,000-year-old 'fish + sheep' recipe — this cha

xiāng

Born as steaming rice in ancient rituals, 香 fuses

Born as a pictograph of a beard, 须 evolved from f

xiǎng

Its ancient form shows sound deliberately 'facing

xié

This 'shoe' hides a leather-worker's shout: its le

Originally a farmer waiting for rain — now the go

xuǎn

This 'choose' character hides a ritual inspector’

xiāng

This 'box' isn't just wood and nails — it's bambo