駱
Symbols Animals
camel
駝
ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄊㄨㄛˊ luò tuó
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.
Camel in Chinese is a fixed two-character word, and one half separately means hunchbacked.
Before you commit
Choose with care駝 alone appears in 駝背, hunchback. If you shorten 駱駝 to one character, a reader may well see a description of posture rather than a desert animal.
At small sizes16 plus 15 strokes, both with the horse radical on the left. Two dense characters; this needs a large placement.
Cultural noteThe camel belongs to the Silk Road in Chinese imagination: endurance across empty distance, and Tang dynasty tomb figures of loaded caravans.
Meaning
Camel. The standard word, both characters required.
The only form read straightforwardly as the animal.
Other characters for “camel”
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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