About Inkoya
Inkoya turns an idea into the Chinese character a Chinese reader would actually use for it — and gives you a file you can take away.
Why it exists
Search "chinese symbol for strength" and you get blog listicles, stock-photo pages and emoji databases. None of them give you a usable file, and several give you characters no Chinese speaker would choose. Inkoya covers 1000 concepts, each with three to five real candidate characters, the readings in both Zhuyin and Pinyin, both the traditional and simplified forms, and a plain warning where the obvious choice is the wrong one.
What you get
A transparent PNG at 1000px or 4000px, rendered from the same properly licensed font you see on screen. No account, no watermark, no payment. Everything runs in your browser — this site has no server and stores nothing about you.
Eight typefaces, honestly
Seal, regular, three printed faces, running, brush and cursive — each a separate licensed typeface. None of them covers everything. Seal script only exists for characters recorded in the 說文解字 around 100 CE, so barely half the character set has a seal form; the Japanese brush faces reach three quarters. Where a face cannot draw a character its button is disabled rather than quietly substituting another face, and coverage is measured by drawing every glyph rather than trusting the font’s character map — one face here maps two thousand characters it cannot actually draw.
On the warnings
The notes under "Before you commit" are the point of the site. 力 is not inner strength. 情 is not romantic love. 和 is harmony between people, not calm inside one. A character that translates your word is not the same thing as a character that means it.
What is not here yet
Stroke-order animation, worksheet and practice-sheet generation, name seals, and vector SVG export are all planned and none of them ship today. This first release is deliberately small.