孔
Symbols Animals
peacock
雀
ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄑㄩㄝˋ kǒng què
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.
Peacock is a fixed two-character word in Chinese; it means beauty and display, with a touch of vanity.
Before you commit
Choose with careDo not shorten this. 孔 alone is a hole or the surname Kong, as in Confucius, and 雀 alone is a sparrow. Only the pair means peacock.
At small sizes4 plus 11 strokes. Reasonably compact for a two-character word, and it holds together better than most bird names.
Cultural note孔雀開屏, the peacock opening its screen, means showing off. The bird is admired for beauty but the phrase carries a light note of vanity.
Meaning
Peacock. The standard word, both characters needed.
The only form read as the bird; splitting it destroys the meaning.
Other characters for “peacock”
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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