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

mood / spirits / interest
to rise / to spring up / to burgeon / to be aroused / to come into vogue
happy and excited (idiom) / in high spirits / in great delight
prosperous / thriving / to prosper / to flourish
keen interest / concentrated attention
prosperous / thriving / flourishing
Xinglong county in Chengde 承德[Cheng2 de2], Hebei
to flourish / to thrive
to become exhilarated (idiom); in high spirits / full of zest
prosperity and decline (of a kingdom) / rise and fall
prosperous and developing / flourishing
Changxing county in Huzhou 湖州[Hu2 zhou1], Zhejiang
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in Changsha by 黃興|黄兴[Huang2 Xing1] in 1904, a precursor of Sun Yat-sen's Alliance for Democracy 同盟會|同盟会[Tong2 meng2 hui4] and of the Guomindang
Zixing, county-level city in Chenzhou 郴州[Chen1 zhou1], Hunan
Zixing, county-level city in Chenzhou 郴州[Chen1 zhou1], Hunan
interest in wine / passion for drinking
Changxing county in Huzhou 湖州[Hu2 zhou1], Zhejiang
variant of 興高采烈|兴高采烈[xing4 gao1 cai3 lie4]

Sentences with 兴

zhe̅n
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na