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

interest / enthusiasm
to carry out large scale construction
if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom)
Baoxing County in Ya'an 雅安[Ya3 an1], Sichuan
(bird species of China) Chinese thrush (Turdus mupinensis)
Baoxing County in Ya'an 雅安[Ya3 an1], Sichuan
(bird species of China) rufous-tailed babbler (Moupinia poecilotis)
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
Fuxingmen neighborhood of Beijing
Dexing, county-level city in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
Dexing, county-level city in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
Zhengxing district of Dandong city 丹東市|丹东市[Dan1 dong1 shi4], Liaoning
Dingxing county in Baoding 保定[Bao3 ding4], Hebei
Yixing, county-level city in Wuxi 無錫|无锡[Wu2 xi1], Jiangsu
Yixing, county-level city in Wuxi 無錫|无锡[Wu2 xi1], Jiangsu

Sentences with 兴

zhe̅n
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na