Chinese symbol for “wild”
野生
yě shēng
(of animals, plants etc) wild
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wild is 野生 (yě shēng), defined as: (of animals, plants etc) wild.
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
Other Chinese words for “wild”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疯狂 (瘋狂) | fēng kuáng | crazy; frenzied; wild |
| 狂放 | kuáng fàng | wild; unrestrained |
| 疯 (瘋) | fēng | insane; mad |
| 狂 | kuáng | mad; wild |
| 飙 (飆) | biāo | (literary) very strong wind; gale; (bound form) wild; violent; unrestrained; furious |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 野生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 野蛮 (野蠻) | yě mán | barbarous; uncivilized |
| 视野 (視野) | shì yě | field of view; (fig.) outlook; perspective |
| 野兽 (野獸) | yě shòu | beast; wild animal |
| 野心 | yě xīn | ambition; wild schemes |
| 野外 | yě wài | countryside; areas outside the city |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wild”.
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.