蟒
Symbols Animals
python
ㄇㄤˇ mǎng
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.
A python or large constrictor; the same character named the python-patterned robes worn by high officials below the emperor.
Before you commit
Choose with care蟒 also names the python-embroidered court robe of ranking officials, so a reader with a historical ear may hear rank rather than reptile.
JapaneseNot a common Japanese character. A Japanese reader would write 大蛇 and may not recognise 蟒 on sight.
At small sizesA heavy character with a grass element stacked above the insect radical; it needs height or the layers merge.
Meaning
Python; any large constricting snake.
One character covering the whole family, from boa to reticulated python.
Other characters for “python”
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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