格兰特

The male name Grant is rendered in Chinese as 格兰特. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Grant is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Gé lán tè.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Grant is written with 3 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 格 (Gé), 兰 (lán), 特 (tè). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Grant rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Grant

Grant is a name of Scottish origin. From a Scottish surname, from the Old French grand, "great."