隼
Symbols Animals
falcon
ㄓㄨㄣˇ zhǔn · mainland reads sǔn
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 falcon has its own compact character in Chinese, distinct from the broader word for hawks and eagles.
Before you commit
Choose with care隼 is uncommon enough that some readers will pause over it. It is real and correct, but it reads technical, closer to Falconidae than to falcon.
JapaneseThe same character is read hayabusa in Japanese and is widely recognised there, including as the name of a spacecraft. A Japanese reading is likely.
At small sizes10 strokes, narrow and vertical with stacked horizontals. Those bars merge if it is scaled down too far.
Meaning
Falcon. A specific bird, not a general raptor.
Rare, clean and precise; the character used in bird names and in naming rockets.
Other characters for “falcon”
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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