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 / taste
to flourish and decay / rise and fall
Xingren county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
Xingren county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
Acanthorhodeus chankaensis (small carp)
Xinghua, county-level city in Taizhou 泰州[Tai4 zhou1], Jiangsu
Xinghua, county-level city in Taizhou 泰州[Tai4 zhou1], Jiangsu
Xinghe county in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
Xinghe county in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
Xingguo county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州[Gan4 zhou1], Jiangxi
to invigorate the country
Xingguo county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州[Gan4 zhou1], Jiangxi
Xincheng, county-level city in Huludao 葫蘆島|葫芦岛[Hu2 lu2 dao3], Liaoning
Xincheng, county-level city in Huludao 葫蘆島|葫芦岛[Hu2 lu2 dao3], Liaoning
lit. to summon demons to create havoc (idiom) / fig. to stir up all kinds of trouble
to establish schools / to raise the standard of education
Xing'an county in Guilin 桂林[Gui4 lin2], Guangxi / Hinggan league, a prefecture level subdivision of Inner Mongolia / Xing'an district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang
Revive China Society, founded by Dr Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山 in 1894 in Honolulu

Sentences with 兴

zhe̅n
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na