獵
Symbols Protection
hunter
ㄌㄧㄝˋ liè
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.
One who tracks and takes game. The Chinese character names the activity; naming the person takes a second character.
Before you commit
Choose with care獵 is a verb. Alone it says hunting, not hunter. If you want the person, the second character is not optional.
At small sizesEighteen strokes, very dense on the right. This one wants real size; small, the right half collapses into a solid mass.
Cultural noteHunting has no romantic tradition in Chinese literature comparable to the English one. The word is practical, and 獵 also appears in 獵物, prey, and 獵奇, chasing the sensational.
Meaning
To hunt; hunting as an activity.
The dog radical on the left marks it as an activity done with hounds.
Other characters for “hunter”
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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