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.

xióng

This 'bear' character hides fire under its fur —

This 'trick' character hides a warrior’s halberd

xià

This 'first dynasty' character began as a dancing

xiàng

Originally a Bronze Age house with a window pointi

xiàng

This character began as a ritual statue — now it

xìn

This 'letter' character literally means 'person sp

xīn

This four-stroke 'heart' isn't just anatomy — it'

xiāng

This 'each other' character hides an ancient looko

xíng

Originally a Bronze Age crossroads pictograph — n

xuě

This character’s top half is literally 'rain' —

xiào

This 'laugh' character hides bamboo — because anc

This 'wash' character began as a Bronze Age drawin

This ‘breath’ character hides a nose atop a hear

Born as a sieve pictograph, 希 evolved from 'rare

xìng

This 'surname' character hides an ancient truth: i

xiū

This character began as a person leaning against a

xiè

Originally 'an arrow of words' — this character f

西

This 'west' character began as a pictograph of a b

xīng

This six-stroke character began as four hands lift

This 3-stroke character began as a bird flapping i

xīng

This character’s four dots aren’t decorative —

xiǎng

Ancient scribes drew 想 as an eye gazing at the su

xiě

This 5-stroke 'write' character hides a 3,000-year

Originally a ritual drum + mouth — this character

xiān

This 'first' character began as a pair of legs ste

This 7-stroke character began as knotted silk thre

xiē

Though it means 'some', 些 can’t stand alone — i

xiàn

This 'king-sees' character began as ritual jade ap

xiǎo

Born as three ancient dots symbolizing grains of s

xué

This 'learn' character hides a roofed classroom —

xià

This three-stroke character began as a dot beneath