興 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 兴 xīng ㄒㄧㄥ to rise to flourish to become popular to start to encourage to get up (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) maybe (dialect) xìng ㄒㄧㄥˋ feeling or desire to do sth interest in sth excitement How 興 is written 興 Write 興 部首 radical 臼 笔画 strokes 16, with 9 after the 部首 Words with 興 Starting with 興 興趣 興奮 興建 興起 興國 All 15 words starting with 興 Ending with 興 高興 新興 復興 中興 振興 All 7 words ending with 興 Containing 興 大興土木 感興趣 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 Make Me a Hanzi, from fonts by Arphic Technology Co., Ltd., Arphic Public License