白
Symbols Animals
white tiger
虎
ㄅㄞˊ ㄏㄨˇ bái 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 White Tiger, guardian of the west and of autumn in the four-symbol system, and also plainly a white-coated tiger.
Before you commit
Choose with care白虎 is not purely auspicious. In feng shui it marks the inauspicious side of a site, and in slang it has a crude sexual reading, so many speakers would not wear it.
Pairs well with青龍白虎 — azure dragon and white tiger, the standard left-and-right guardian pair.
At small sizes白 is five strokes and 虎 eight; an easy pair that stays legible small.
Meaning
White Tiger: western guardian among the four celestial animals.
A fixed two-character name; 白 alone would only say white.
Other characters for “white 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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