鳳
Symbols Animals
phoenix
ㄈㄥˋ fèng
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 fenghuang: a sovereign bird of peace and virtue that appears when times are good. It does not burn.
Before you commit
Choose with careThe fenghuang does not die in fire and rise from ashes. That is the Egyptian and Greek phoenix. If rebirth is the point, this bird will not say it.
At small sizes14 strokes with a bird enclosed by a wind frame. The interior closes up quickly when it is small.
Cultural note龍鳳 as a pair means husband and wife and appears throughout weddings. 鳳 alone leans feminine and was the empress's emblem.
Meaning
The phoenix; strictly the male of the pair.
The single character used when one glyph must carry the whole bird.
Other characters for “phoenix”
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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