火
Symbols Nature
fire
ㄏㄨㄛˇ huǒ
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.
Fire: heat and vitality, but in daily Chinese the same character is the ordinary word for losing your temper.
Before you commit
Choose with care火 in daily use most often means temper — 發火 is to lose it. The elemental reading is not the first one a Chinese reader reaches for.
JapaneseThe identical character in Japanese, read hi or ka, and just as common there.
At small sizesFour strokes and open. It stays clean at any scale, which few elemental characters manage.
Meaning
Fire; by extension anger, and being in hot demand.
Four strokes, unmistakable, and one of the five phases.
Other characters for “fire”
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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