蜥
Symbols Animals
lizard
蜴
ㄒㄧ ㄧˋ xī yì
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 lizard: a plain animal name in Chinese carrying none of the symbolic weight of dragon or snake.
Before you commit
Choose with care蜥蜴 carries no positive symbolism at all. It is a zoology word, about as poetic in Chinese as lizard is in English.
At small sizesTwo insect-radical characters side by side make a busy, repetitive block. Keep them well separated.
Cultural note壁虎 is the lizard people actually know: the gecko on the summer wall, thought harmless and welcome in the house.
Meaning
Lizard.
Both halves exist only in this word; neither stands alone in modern use.
Other characters for “lizard”
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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