鷹
Symbols Animals
eagle
ㄧㄥ yīng
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 eagle: height, sharp sight and the strike — the raptor as a symbol of ambition.
Before you commit
Choose with care鷹 does not distinguish eagle from hawk. It also appears in 鷹犬, hawks and hounds, meaning someone's enforcers — a reading worth knowing about.
At small sizes24 strokes, one of the densest characters on this site. It will turn into a black patch if inked small.
Cultural noteThe eagle carries ambition, sharp sight and freedom in Chinese too, so most of the Western reading transfers. The compounds are what to watch: 鷹犬 is a hired thug and 鷹派 is a political hardliner.
Meaning
Eagle, hawk; birds of prey generally.
The single character covering the whole raptor family.
Other characters for “eagle”
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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