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 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).
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.
Japanese variant of 舉|举

Words with 兴

stimulant / doping (in athletics)
to muster large forces / to get a great number of people involved (in carrying out some task)
to begin / to set in motion
Xing'an county in Guilin 桂林[Gui4 lin2], Guangxi
another name for Lingqu 靈渠|灵渠[Ling2 qu2], canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安[Xing1 an1], Guangxi
Xingning, county-level city in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong / Xingning District of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nan2 ning2 Shi4], Guangxi
Xingning District of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nan2 ning2 Shi4], Guangxi
Xingning, county-level city in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong
Xingshan district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang / Xingshan county in Yichang 宜昌[Yi2 chang1], Hubei
Xingshan district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang
Xingshan county in Yichang 宜昌[Yi2 chang1], Hubei
to dispatch troops / to send an army / to mobilize forces
Hinggan league, a prefecture level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
Xing'an district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang
to send punitive forces against / (fig.) to criticize violently
Xingping, county-level city in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
Xingping, county-level city in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
Xingqing district of Yinchuan city 銀川市|银川市[Yin2 chuan1 shi4], Ningxia
Xingwen county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾[Yi2 bin1], Sichuan
Xingwen county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾[Yi2 bin1], Sichuan

Sentences with 兴

zhe̅n
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na