鷹
Symbols Animals
soaring eagle
ㄧㄥ yīng
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 eagle or large hawk: keen sight, reach and ambition, and in Chinese a predator before it is a symbol of liberty.
Before you commit
Choose with care鷹 has no automatic freedom reading in Chinese; that association is American. Here it suggests sharp sight, ambition and predation.
Pairs well with雄鷹 — a male eagle, the usual phrase for a great soaring bird.
At small sizesTwenty-four strokes packed under a broad top. Below about 4 cm the bird element underneath closes up.
Meaning
Eagle or hawk; a bird of prey generally.
Chinese does not split eagle from hawk the way English does; this covers both.
Other characters for “soaring eagle”
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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