蠍
Symbols Animals
scorpion
ㄒㄧㄝ xiē
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 venomous creature in Chinese as in English, and one of the five poisons of folk tradition.
Before you commit
Choose with care蠍 is not admired in Chinese. It belongs to the five poisonous creatures, and 蛇蠍心腸 means a viciously cruel nature. It reads as danger, not as strength.
Pairs well with蠍 with 天 gives 天蠍, which reads as the astrological sign and sidesteps the venom associations almost entirely.
At small sizes19 strokes, and the right-hand element is crowded. This is a large-placement character; small it turns to mush.
Meaning
Scorpion. The traditional single character.
The correct written form in Taiwan; dense but unambiguous.
Other characters for “scorpion”
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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