蛙
Symbols Animals
frog
ㄨㄚ wā
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 frog in Chinese is mostly a lesson about narrow horizons, though the related toad belongs to the moon.
Before you commit
Choose with care井底之蛙, the frog at the bottom of the well, is one of the best-known Chinese idioms and it is an insult. Many readers will think of it the moment they see 蛙.
At small sizes12 strokes, insect radical plus two stacked earth elements. Simple and stable; a good choice for a small placement.
Cultural noteThe three-legged money toad, 金蟾, is a common wealth charm in shops and homes. That lucky creature is 蟾, the toad, not 蛙.
Meaning
Frog. The single character.
Clean and symmetrical; the standard written form.
Other characters for “frog”
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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