猛
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ferocity
ㄇㄥˇ měng
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.
Force with teeth in it. Chinese has several characters for fierceness, separated by whether it is admirable, frightening or merely violent.
Before you commit
Choose with care猛 is closer to vigorous than to cruel. It is used of tigers, of rainstorms and of sudden growth, so it reads as force and speed rather than viciousness.
Pairs well with勇猛 is brave and fierce, 猛虎 is a fierce tiger. Both keep the admiring reading; 兇猛 pushes it towards menacing.
At small sizesEleven strokes with a dog radical on the left. Reasonable small, though the boxed lower right needs clean spacing.
Meaning
Fierce, violent, vigorous; sudden and forceful.
The everyday word for a fierce animal or a sharp increase; energetic rather than evil.
Other characters for “ferocity”
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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