Save Gender Masculine Usage Chinese, Chinese Mythology, Far Eastern Mythology Scripts 乾荒(Chinese, Japanese Kanji) Meaning & History From the characters 乾 (qián, a trigram symbol that represents “heaven”) and 荒 (huāng, meaning “wilderness, wasteland”). This is supposedly the personal name of Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors and grandson of the Yellow Emperor (Xuanyuan).