匪
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outlaw
ㄈㄟˇ fěi
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.
Living outside the law. The romantic English outlaw does not survive translation, but Chinese does have its own tradition of honourable bandits.
Before you commit
Choose with care匪 is an insult, not a badge. If you want the outlaw-hero sense English attaches to the word, the single character will not deliver it.
At small sizesTen strokes inside a three-sided box. The open right side needs clear line weight or the character reads as unfinished.
Cultural noteThe classic novel Water Margin is about 綠林 outlaws driven to banditry by corrupt officials. 綠林好漢, greenwood heroes, is the phrase that carries the admiration.
Meaning
A bandit or brigand; an outlaw in the criminal sense.
The plain word, and flatly negative - this is a criminal, not a hero.
Other characters for “outlaw”
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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