鹿
Symbols Animals
deer
ㄌㄨˋ lù
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 deer: quiet, elegant, and through a pun, a symbol of prosperity and rank.
Before you commit
Choose with care逐鹿中原, chasing the deer in the central plains, means contending for supreme power. In that idiom the deer is the prize being hunted, not the hunter.
At small sizes11 strokes with an open frame. Distinctive enough to stay recognisable when small.
Cultural note鹿 sounds like 祿, the salary of an official, so deer imagery is a wish for prosperity and standing. It appears in longevity paintings alongside cranes and pines.
Meaning
Deer.
The single character; the shape still reads as an animal with antlers.
Other characters for “deer”
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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