surname Xing
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)
feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement

= + + : I would say this one looks definitely like a hedgehog, but since there's already a character for hedgehog, let's call this one a sea star.

= + + : Marie Curie found a sea star attached to a big eight ball in the engine's bathroom. As she is a curious and interested scientist, she wants to investigate the sea star, so she pokes it with a flute and tries to tickle it with a daisy.

兴 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.

Characters with 兴 as component

to lift / to hold up / to cite / to enumerate / to act / to raise / to choose / to elect / act / move / deed

= + : In the space station Zeus eats some dried fruits as he suddenly finds a sea star in the bag. Baffled, he lifts up the sea star to have a closer look.
variant of 舉|举[ju3]

= + : In the space station Zeus eats some dried fruits as he suddenly finds a sea star in the bag. Baffled, he lifts up the sea star to have a closer look.
to praise / to acclaim / reputation

= + : Yu the Great (yu) wants to increase the star fish' (兴) reputation (誉). In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she is announcing surprising facts about star fish with a megaphone (言).
Japanese variant of 舉|举

Words with 兴

happy / glad / willing (to do sth) / in a cheerful mood
interest (desire to know about sth) / interest (thing in which one is interested) / hobby / CL:個|个[ge4]
excited / excitement / (physiology) excitation
to spoil things; to dampen spirits / to feel deflated; to be dispirited
Fuxing district of Handan city 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 shi4], Hebei / Fuxing or Fuhsing township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan
to revive / to rejuvenate
cheerful and optimistic / in a good mood / gaily
to build / to construct
to incite trouble / to stir up havoc
refined and elegant attitude of mind
full of joy and expectations / animatedly
Dongxing district of Neijiang city 內江市|内江市[Nei4 jiang1 shi4], Sichuan / Dongxing, county-level city in Fangchenggang 防城港[Fang2 cheng2 gang3], Guangxi
Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], murdered in Shanghai in 1916

Sentences with 兴

zhe̅n
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na