Abstract: Chirality is a fundamental property of living systems, and chiral amino acids differ markedly in bioactivi• ty, metabolism, and toxicological behavior; therefore, selective discrimination of amino acid enantiomers is of great importance in disease diagnosis, pharmaceutical analysis, and forensic identification.As an emerging class of zerodimensional nanomaterials, chiral carbon dots (Ch-CDs) combine excellent optical properties with favorable biocom • patibility and thus offer distinct advantages for enantioselective sensing.This review summarizes the chiral origins, synthetic strategies, recognition mechanisms, and sensing modes of Ch-CDs, with a focus on recent advances in the detection of representative amino acid enantiomers, including cysteine, lysine, tryptophan, arginine, and gluta• mine.Representative sensing strategies based on metal-ion mediation, metal-free recognition, ratiometric fluores• cence, and multimodal readout are systematically compared.Overall, Ch-CDs hold considerable promise for sensi• tive detection, portable signal readout, and analysis in complex matrices.However, their chirality-structure relation• ships, signal amplification mechanisms, and standardized evaluation criteria remain insufficiently understood, and some systems are still constrained by dependence on exogenous metal ions, limited anti-interference capability, and 文章编号: 1000-7032(XXXX)XX-0001-18