獨
Symbols Animals
lone wolf
狼
ㄉㄨˊ ㄌㄤˊ dú láng
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.
Someone who works and lives apart from any group; in Chinese the phrase is borrowed from English and reads as modern rather than traditional.
Before you commit
Choose with careWolves are not admired in Chinese as they are in English. 狼 turns up in the words for cruelty, ingratitude and lechery, so the character alone reads badly.
At small sizesTwo moderate characters, each with a compact left radical. They stay legible down to a few centimetres.
Cultural note獨狼 appears in Chinese mostly in news reports about lone-wolf attackers, which colours it more heavily than the English phrase.
Meaning
Lone wolf: someone who acts entirely alone.
A calque from English, now standard in news writing and subtitles.
Other characters for “lone wolf”
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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