虎
Symbols Animals
tiger
ㄏㄨˇ hǔ
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 tiger: the animal Chinese treats as the king of beasts, standing for authority and force.
Before you commit
Choose with care虎 is force and authority, not solitary cool. In compounds it often means ferocity in a person, and 母老虎 is a fierce, domineering wife.
At small sizes8 strokes and quite open. It survives shrinking better than most animal characters.
Cultural noteThe tiger, not the lion, is the king of animals in Chinese thinking. The 王 mark on its brow is read as the character for king.
Meaning
Tiger.
The plain character, and a common one in names and idioms.
Other characters for “tiger”
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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