Chinese symbol for “brant”
黑雁
hēi yàn
(bird species of China) brant (Branta bernicla)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for brant is 黑雁 (hēi yàn), defined as: (bird species of China) brant (Branta bernicla).
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 黑雁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黑人 | hēi rén | black person; an illegal |
| 黑暗 | hēi àn | dark; darkly |
| 黑色 | hēi sè | black |
| 黑白 | hēi bái | black and white; right and wrong |
| 黑客 | hēi kè | (computing) (loanword) hacker |
| 黑帮 (黑幫) | hēi bāng | bunch of gangsters; criminal gang |
| 大雁 | dà yàn | wild goose; 只 (zhī) |
| 鸿雁 (鴻雁) | hóng yàn | (bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “brant”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.