野
Symbols Animals
wild horse
馬
ㄧㄝˇ ㄇㄚˇ yě mǎ
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.
An untamed horse; in Chinese the image leans toward something unrestrained that ought to be reined in.
Before you commit
Choose with careA 野馬 in Chinese is a horse that still needs breaking. There is no romance of the open range in the phrase.
At small sizes野 and 馬 are both around ten strokes and sit evenly together; a safe pair for a forearm.
Cultural note心猿意馬 — a monkey mind and a horse of a will — is the standard idiom for a restless, ungovernable mind.
Meaning
Wild horse; an unbroken or feral horse.
The natural word, and the only way to say wild and horse together.
Other characters for “wild horse”
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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