章
Symbols Animals
octopus
魚
ㄓㄤ ㄩˊ zhāng yú
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.
Octopus in Chinese is a two-character word whose first half means chapter; there is no usable single character.
Before you commit
Choose with careNever shorten this to 章. Alone that character means a chapter, a seal or a badge, and has nothing to do with the animal.
JapaneseJapanese uses 蛸 for octopus, read tako, and it is common there. If you want the obscure single character, expect it to read as Japanese.
At small sizes11 plus 11 strokes, evenly matched. Comfortable at small scale compared with most sea-creature words.
Meaning
Octopus. The standard word, both characters needed.
The only form read as the animal without a second glance.
Other characters for “octopus”
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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