羊
Symbols Animals
sheep
ㄧㄤˊ yáng
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 same character covers sheep and goats; the woolly animal specifically is a two-character word.
Before you commit
Choose with care羊 is the root of characters for beauty, goodness and auspiciousness, so it reads warm. But alone it is livestock, and can be read as meek or easily led.
JapaneseRead hitsuji in Japanese with the same meaning. A Japanese reader will not think this is Chinese.
At small sizes6 strokes and highly symmetrical. One of the safest characters for a small or curved placement.
Meaning
Sheep or goat. The general character and the zodiac animal.
Clean, ancient, and immediately legible to any reader.
Other characters for “sheep”
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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