洪
Symbols Nature
flood
ㄏㄨㄥˊ hóng
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.
Water that overruns its banks; in Chinese the archetypal disaster and the founding test of good government.
Before you commit
Choose with care洪 alone often reads as vast or grand, and it is a common surname romanised Hung or Ang. For the disaster, 洪水 is the safe choice.
At small sizesNine strokes, water radical left. Clean and dependable at small scale.
Cultural note大禹治水, Yu taming the floodwaters, is the founding story of Chinese statecraft: he cut channels rather than building dams. Flood control is the oldest image of good rule.
Meaning
Flood; also vast, grand, on a large scale. A surname.
The main character, though its size sense runs alongside the disaster sense.
Other characters for “flood”
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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