蛾
Symbols Animals
moth
ㄜˊ é
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 moth: in Chinese it appears almost entirely inside one image, the moth flying into the flame.
Before you commit
Choose with care飛蛾撲火 means going willingly to your own destruction. In Chinese a moth is close to self-destruction, not to quiet transformation.
At small sizesThirteen strokes, well balanced left to right. It survives small work better than most insect characters.
Cultural note蛾眉, moth eyebrows, is a classical phrase for a beautiful woman's brows — the one warm use this character has.
Meaning
Moth.
One character, plainly the insect, and clearly distinct from 蝶, butterfly.
Other characters for “moth”
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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