Chinese Characters Starting with "Y 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.

垚

yáo

This character is literally three 'earth' radicals

垔

yīn

This rare 9-stroke character hides a Confucian sec

坱

yǎng

This rare character hides a philosophical whisper:

圯

yí

This six-stroke character looks like 'earth + snak

圛

yì

This character isn’t drawn with ink — it’s draw

圉

yǔ

This 'horse stable' character hides a Zhou dynasty

圄

yǔ

This 'prison' character hasn’t changed in 3,000 y

囿

yòu

This ‘park’ isn’t for picnics — it’s a walled

呓

yì

This 7-stroke character combines 'mouth' and 'drea

嘤

yīng

This delicate bird-call character hides a wine jug

嚚

yín

This 18-stroke rarity looks like a mouth trapped u

噳

yǔ

This ‘herd’ character doesn’t show animals—it

噫

yī

This 16-stroke mouth-shaped sigh has echoed throug

哕

yuě

A 9-stroke mouth + motion glyph born from ancient

噞

yǎn

A 2,000-year-old poetic verb that doesn’t mean ‘

噎

yē

This character’s right side isn’t ‘world’ — i

嘢

yě

A Cantonese-only 'thing' character born from stree

嗈

yōng

This 13-stroke ‘goose-coo’ character hasn’t cha

哟

yō

Born in Ming-era teahouses—not ancient bronzes—

喭

yàn

This character doesn’t exist — 喭 is a phantom g

喓

yāo

This character doesn’t name the insect — it capt

喑

yīn

Looks like 'mouth + sound'—but it's actually 'mou

喁

yóng

A rare literary character depicting fish mouths so

啱

yān

This 'correct' character doesn't exist in classica

唹

yú

This character doesn’t exist — no ancient inscri

唷

yō

Born not from ancient bronzes but from Ming-era st

唈

yì

This rare literary character isn’t about heartbea

唁

yàn

This character’s two mouths facing each other in

咿

yī

This delicate 9-stroke character isn’t just ‘squ

咦

yí

This 'surprise' interjection isn’t ancient—it’s

呦

yōu

This 'Oh!' isn’t shouted — it’s a hushed, eight

吔

yē

This character doesn’t exist in ancient texts —

吆

yāo

This six-stroke shout — 口 + 幺 — originated as

厣

yǎn

This 11-stroke character is a living fossil: its a

厓

yá

This elegant 8-stroke fossil — 厓 — is the lyric

卣

yǒu

This 7-stroke character isn’t just a wine contain

匽

yǎn

This 9-stroke character hides in plain sight: its

匜

yí

This character began as a Bronze Age spouted basin

勚

yì

This 'toilsome' character hides a hunter's arrow (

劮

yì

This 'leisurely' character hides a roof and a sigh