donkey

驢

ㄌㄩˊ lǘ

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

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A working animal in Chinese, and an insult often enough that choosing it deliberately will read as a joke.

Before you commit

Choose with care驢 is used as an insult meaning stupid, as in 蠢驢. A Chinese reader will not assume you meant patient or hardworking; they will assume you meant the joke or missed it.

At small sizes26 strokes in the traditional form. This is among the densest characters here; it needs serious size or it becomes a solid block.

Cultural note黔驢技窮, the Guizhou donkey out of tricks, describes someone whose limited abilities have been exposed. The idiom is well known and unflattering.

Meaning

Donkey. The single traditional character.

Correct and clear, though the animal itself is not admired.

Other characters for “donkey”

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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