Chinese Characters Starting with "C 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.

忱

chén

This 'sincerity' character hides a crown: its righ

忡

chōng

This 'grieved' character hides an insect in plain

忖

cǔn

A six-stroke masterpiece: heart (忄) + ruler (寸)

徜

cháng

This character looks like it means 'to wander' —

徂

cú

This 'go' character isn’t for trips to the superm

彽

chí

This ‘go to and fro’ character isn’t about trav

彳

chì

This invisible three-stroke radical — never spoke

弨

chāo

This character looks like a bow with a 'summoning'

弛

chí

This six-stroke bow radical character depicts the

廛

chán

This 15-stroke character is a fossilized urban zon

庱

chěng

This character looks like a simple town sketch —

幮

chú

This elegant, nearly extinct character for 'mosqui

帱

chóu

This 10-stroke character looks like silk cords hol

幨

chān

This 'carriage curtain' character 幨 hasn’t been

巉

chán

This 19-stroke character isn’t just ‘steep’—it

嶒

céng

This rare character hides a double mountain in its

嵯

cuó

This 'lofty' character is a linguistic twin — it

崔

cuī

This 'lofty' character hides a double-mountain pic

崒

cuì

A mountain crowned by soldiers—this character doe

岑

cén

This ‘small hill’ character hides a double mount

屮

chè

This 3-stroke character isn’t a word you’ll spea

寀

cài

This 'estate' character looks like a roof over a f

宸

chén

This 10-stroke character hides a cosmic secret: 宀

宬

chéng

Its ‘roof over the emperor’s pronoun’ shape isn

孱

chán

Looks like two children under a roof — but it’s

嬦

chóu

This character has zero dictionary meaning — it e

媸

chī

A 13-stroke literary fossil: its lopsided structur

婼

chuò

A forgotten moral fossil: 婼 fuses 'woman' and 're

娼

chāng

A 'woman' (女) paired with 'two suns' (昌) — visu

姹

chà

This 'beautiful' character isn’t for selfies or c

墀

chí

This 'courtyard' isn’t grassy or casual — it’s

塍

chéng

This 13-stroke character hides a farming revolutio

埕

chéng

A 10-stroke 'earth-made-complete' character — its

垞

chá

This ‘mound’ character hides an ancient, elegant

坼

chè

This 8-stroke character looks like earth (土) bein

坻

chí

A serene, literary 'islet' born from ancient bronz

圌

chuí

This character doesn’t mean ‘mountain’ — it *i

囱

cōng

This 7-stroke 'chimney' character hides a smoky se

冁

chǎn

Born from 'unfolding arms' in bronze script, 冁 (c

嚵

chán

A rare, 18-stroke 'mouth monster' — three mouths