燼
Symbols Nature
ember
ㄐㄧㄣˋ jìn
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 glow left in a dying fire; Chinese has no exact word, only near neighbours on either side.
Before you commit
Choose with careChinese does not name the glowing ember as a single idea. 燼 is what is left after burning, 炭 is charcoal, and a spark is 火星 or 星火. Pick which side of the moment you want.
Pairs well with餘燼 for embers still warm, 死灰復燃 for cold ashes catching again, which is the phrase for something written off that revives.
At small sizesEighteen strokes with fire beneath a crowded top. It closes up badly small, so give it size.
Meaning
The remains of a fire; cinders and ash.
The closest single character, though it sits nearer ash than glow.
Other characters for “ember”
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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