森
Symbols Nature
forest
ㄙㄣ sēn
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.
Forest, written by stacking trees, so the meaning is visible in the shape itself.
Before you commit
Choose with care森 also carries a chill. It appears in words for eerie and for a sombre, imposing atmosphere, so it is not a sunny character.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read mori, and very common in Japanese names. The glyph does not read as specifically Chinese.
At small sizesTwelve strokes but in three clean repeated units. The symmetry survives shrinking better than the count suggests.
Meaning
Dense forest; also thick, dark, awe-inspiring.
Three trees stacked, which readers see immediately.
Other characters for “forest”
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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