枝
Symbols Nature
branch
ㄓ zhī
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 limb growing out from a trunk; the slender kind, not the main stem.
Before you commit
Choose with care枝 is a slender branch. The trunk or main limb is 幹, a completely different character, so do not use 枝 for the sense of a strong central bough.
Pairs well with枝葉 branches and leaves, which also idiomatically means side issues and minor details rather than the main point.
At small sizesEight strokes, open and airy. One of the safer tree characters at small scale.
Meaning
A branch or twig; also the counter for pens, flowers and rifles.
The standard word for a branch, light and slender rather than structural.
Other characters for “branch”
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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