天
Symbols Animals
winged horse
馬
ㄊㄧㄢ ㄇㄚˇ tiān 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.
A horse with wings: Chinese myth has no Pegasus of its own, but the heavenly horse is the closest real equivalent.
Before you commit
Choose with careThere is no winged horse in Chinese mythology. 天馬 first meant the prized western horses imported under the Han and was mythologised later.
Pairs well with天馬行空 — a heavenly horse crossing the sky, said of unbounded imagination.
At small sizes天 is four strokes against 馬 at ten. The pair looks unbalanced unless the stroke weight compensates.
Meaning
Heavenly horse: the divine, sky-running horse of legend.
The standard Chinese rendering of Pegasus, and a genuine classical term.
Other characters for “winged 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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