豹
Symbols Animals
leopard
ㄅㄠˋ bào
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.
A single clean character for the spotted cat, associated with speed and with seeing only part of a larger whole.
Before you commit
Choose with care豹 is not a compliment or a virtue, just the animal. It carries speed and ferocity, but nothing like the moral weight that 龍 or 虎 carry.
At small sizes10 strokes and well balanced left to right. It holds its shape small, which makes it a reliable choice for wrist or ankle placement.
Cultural note管中窺豹 means glimpsing a leopard through a tube: seeing one spot and thinking you know the beast. The character is tied to that idea of partial knowledge.
Meaning
Leopard, panther. One character, no ambiguity.
Short, sharp, and read as the animal by everyone.
Other characters for “leopard”
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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