豹
Symbols Animals
panther
ㄅㄠˋ bào
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.
Chinese has no separate word for panther; it is a leopard, and a black one if you say so.
Before you commit
Choose with carePanther is not a species in Chinese thinking. 豹 alone will be pictured as a spotted leopard. If the black animal is the point, 黑豹 is the only version that says it.
At small sizes10 strokes, evenly weighted. One of the more forgiving animal characters at small scale or on a curve.
Cultural note黑豹 is also the name of one of the best-known Chinese rock bands, formed in Beijing in the late 1980s. Some readers will think of the band first.
Meaning
Leopard or panther. Chinese does not separate the two.
The single character covers the animal English calls a panther.
Other characters for “panther”
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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