蛟
Symbols Animals
sea dragon
ㄐㄧㄠ jiāo
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 water dragon of Chinese myth: a river and sea creature that can rise into a true dragon once it reaches deep water.
Before you commit
Choose with care蛟 is not benign. Classical texts treat it as dangerous, and 蛟龍得水 means talent that has finally found the conditions it needed.
Pairs well with蛟龍得水 — the flood dragon reaches water; said of someone who has found their element at last.
At small sizesTwelve strokes with an insect radical on the left. Keep the two halves apart or it blots.
Meaning
A flood dragon; a horned water serpent of rivers and deep pools.
One character, and the closest real Chinese word for a sea dragon.
Other characters for “sea dragon”
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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