蜂
Symbols Animals
bee
ㄈㄥ fēng
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
The bee in Chinese stands for diligence and collective work rather than sweetness.
Before you commit
Choose with care蜂 alone does not mean honeybee. It also covers wasps and hornets, and appears in words for swarming and mobbing. For the honeybee specifically use 蜜蜂.
Pairs well with蜂 with 蜜 gives 蜂蜜, honey, which reads warm where the bare character reads like an insect classification.
At small sizes13 strokes, insect radical left, phonetic right. Balanced and holds together well at small scale.
Meaning
Bee, or wasp. Covers stinging insects broadly.
The single character; compact and clearly legible.
Other characters for “bee”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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