色
Symbols Beauty
color
ㄙㄜˋ sè
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.
Colour. The character for it carries a strong second meaning that matters a great deal on skin.
Before you commit
Choose with care色 alone frequently reads as lust. 好色 is lecherous and 色狼 is a groper, so a single 色 on skin is a genuinely risky choice.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read shoku or iro, with the same double sense of colour and eroticism. The ambiguity does not go away.
At small sizesSix strokes, compact and clean. Technically excellent small - the problem with this character is its meaning, not its form.
Meaning
Colour; also appearance, facial expression, and sexual desire.
The standard character for colour, with a second life in words about lust.
Other characters for “color”
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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