野
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wild
ㄧㄝˇ yě
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.
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Same in both
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Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
Not tamed, not fenced, not planned. Chinese separates wild as in open country from wild as in a person out of control.
Before you commit
Choose with care野 in compounds often means crude - 野蠻 is barbaric, 粗野 is coarse. It also carries ambition, as in 野心, which is closer to ruthless than to free-spirited.
Pairs well with狂野 is wild in the passionate sense, and is the phrase closest to how English uses wild about a person or a night out.
At small sizesEleven strokes in a balanced split. Legible small; the right half is open enough to survive on curved skin.
Meaning
Wild, untamed; the countryside; unofficial or outside the system.
The character for open land, and by extension anything not domesticated.
Other characters for “wild”
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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